Don't Tell Him A Thing
by Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
by Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
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Many years ago the writer’s father, then a city missionary,
received a telephone call from a prominent liberal clergyman.
“Peter,” said the clergyman, “I’ve got a young
man here in the outer office who seems to be in great distress. He says he
feels he’s so great a sinner that he’s overstepped the line and
God won’t forgive him. Now you’ve had a lot of experience with
such people. What shall I tell him?” The clergyman didn’t even
know how to help a troubled soul.
“Don’t tell him a thing; I’ll be right over ,”
said dad, and he left immediately to deal with the young man himself. Dad
knew very well what was the matter with this young lad. The Holy Spirit had
convicted him of his sin (John 16:8). The lad had come to see himself as he
really was — as God saw him, and sees any unsaved person, no matter
how religious.
No person ever comes to see his need of a Savior until he has first come
to see himself as a condemned sinner before God. And it is only when we
come to see ourselves as we are in the sight of a holy God that there is
hope of salvation.
The self-righteous do not see their need of a Savior. What would He save
them from? What have they done that is so wrong? This is the way their
reasoning goes. It is only when we begin to appreciate the holiness and
righteousness of God that it dawns upon us that our condition is hopeless
without a Savior.
Strange, is it not, that so many people have pictures hanging on their
walls of our Lord crowned with thorns or hanging on a cross, yet do not
really know Him as a Savior, their own Savior.
But when we have been convicted of our sin and our hopeless condition
before God, we are ready to take in the words spoken by Paul to the
trembling jailor at Philippi:
“Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved” (Acts 16:31).
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