Come To Jesus Part 2

 

I’m Duane Matz and welcome to Today’s Living Word.

 

Come To Jesus day 2: Thoughts from the Neuman Hall Devotional booklet published in 1848!

 

Why should you come? You are a sinner! Come for pardon!

 

Perhaps you do not feel you are a sinner. At least you think you are no worse than others. But have you indeed obeyed all the commandments? Been true, chaste, sober, honest, forgiving, kind?

 

Never indulged in pride, malice, anger, deceit or lust? The very first command is to love the Lord our God with all our mind and strength. Have you always done this?

Always been thankful for His mercies, always carefully read His Word in order to believe and obey it?

 

 

Always tried to please Him, loved to pray to Him, taken delight in the Sabbath, His people, His worship?

             

Always striven to make known His truth, to induce others to love Him?

 

If you have always done these things, you have just done your duty and have nothing to boast of!

 

But you have not done these things and you know it! You know you have sought your own pleasure rather than the pleasure of God! If a man say he hath no sin, he deceiveth himself. There is none righteous, no, not one. All have sinned and come short of the glory of God!

 

We are sinners! Enormous guilt hangs over each of us. Were we to labor for thousands of years, we could not atone for the least of our sins.

 

BUT, BUT, there IS forgiveness, free, full, eternal, for the guilty. Jesus has pardon for thee, sinner, purchased with His own blood. He is waiting to give it to all who ask. Come for it! Come for it! Come to Jesus.

 

I’m Duane Matz and that’s Today’s Living Word