Psalm 119:136 Rivers of waters run down my eyes, because they keep not your law. One time I was preaching in Chicago, and when I gave out the invitation a man stood up. He was an enormous fellow, weighing twenty-two stone, and I thought to myself, "You have caught a magnificent specimen to-night." After the meeting was over I went down and sat behind him and talked to him. He said: "Let me tell you how I came to take Christ to-day. I have been a church-goer all my life, but I only went to criticize, and when men got up in the prayer-meeting to talk I took out a little notebook which I kept, and wrote down what they said, and afterwards watched to see how their daily life agreed with what they said. I said to myself: 'All these Christians are hypocrites.' My heart was as hard as stone; I was perfectly indifferent. I was taken very ill, and one day when I lay down I thought I was dying. A man came to me, and asked if he might pray for me. I said: 'Well, if you want to pray for me, I have no objection, if it will do you any good. If you will enjoy it, pray away.' He knelt down beside my bed, and I watched him. I though I was dying, but I wasn't a bit frightened. I was perfectly callous and hardened, and as this man prayed for me I watched him out of the corner of nay eyes. As I was watching him out of the corner of my eyes, I saw a tear rolling down his cheeks, and I said to myself, 'Here is this man, a perfect stranger to me, and he is weeping over my sins and over my lost condition.' That broke my heart. That is why I am here to-night. That is why I got up and asked for prayer. That is why I have taken the Lord Jesus. I tell you, you will win more men and women by your tears than you will ever win by your arguments." (R. A. Torrey, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.WEB: Streams of tears run down my eyes, because they don't observe your law. TZADI |
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