Acts 2:21 And it shall come to pass, that whoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. Some years ago a young man was going home one night from the house of business in which he was engaged. The thought occurred to him that he was becoming more careless each year about his soul's salvation, and that he would soon become utterly hardened. And he said to himself, "Why should this be? Why not seek the Lord now?" So he lifted up his cry secretly as he walked through the street, "Lord, forgive me, and help me to love and serve Thee." The Holy Spirit, to whose voice he was then listening, inspired the cry for mercy; and the prayer thus offered was answered. The sleeper was awakened, and Christ gave him life. Let your conduct be like that young man's, for the Holy Spirit is calling you now. If hitherto you have rejected the message, now determine to hear and obey it. An effectual cry: — I heard of two millers who used to keep the old mill going day and night, and at midnight one miller would go down the stream, pull his boat up two or three yards above the dam, and the other miller would come along the other way. One night the miller was going down as usual, and he fell asleep, and when he awoke, it was the water over the dam that woke him. He knew that if he went over he would be dashed to pieces on the rocks below. He seized his oars and he tried to pull back, but he found that it was too late. But he got hold of a little twig between the rocks. It began to give way; and if that twig had come away he would have been swept over the dam and lost; but there was just enough strength in the root to hold him; and so he sat there in that boat and held on, and he cried, "Help! help! help!" and he kept crying, until at last the cry of distress was heard by the brother miller, and he found out the situation, and he got a rope and threw it, and the man let go of the twig and laid hold of the rope, and they pulled him out of the jaws of death. He saved his life because it was an honest cry for help. And there is not a man or woman in this house to-night but that shall be eternally saved if he or she will send the cry up to heaven, "Lord, help me. Lord, remember me. Lord, save me, or I perish." "It shall come to pass that whosoever calleth on the name of the Lord shall be saved." Put the promise to the test. (J. McNeill.) Parallel Verses KJV: And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.WEB: It will be, that whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.' |
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