Safe Through the Blood of Jesus

PREFACE 17
I had been religious, moral, dutiful, and
consistent; but it had been a mere going
about to establish my own righteousness,
ignoring the central fact of Divine Revelation
—that “Christ Jesus came into the world to
save sinners” (1 Tim. 1. 15). “But God, who
is rich in mercy” (Eph. 2. 4), had compassion
on me, and by the grace of His Holy Spirit,
then and there “revealed His Son in me”
(Gal. 1. 16). The first gleam of Gospel light
which entered my darkened mind, was in
reading a little tract in which Luther’s conversion
is referred to. When the words of
the Creed, “I believe in the forgiveness of
sins,” were pronounced in his hearing, he
took them up and repeated them on his bed
of sickness; but he was told he must believe
not only in the forgiveness of David's or Peter’s
sins, but that he must believe in the forgiveness
of his own. This truth became the inlet of
pardon and peace to his soul; and on reading of
this, I felt that my soul also was being visited
with light from Heaven. I was soon led to
see that pardon of sin was a present and personal
blessing, but I was not satisfied that I
believed aright.
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