Will You Let Him In?

[Thompson, Darryl]

Will You Let Him In? 

     The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved
thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I
drawn thee. Jer. 31:3.  

     The work dearest to the heart of Christ is that of drawing souls to
Him.... Look at Jesus, the Majesty of heaven. [FROM A PERSONAL LETTER OF
APPEAL.] What do you behold in His life history? His divinity clothed
with humanity, a whole life of continual humility, the doing of one act
of condescension after another, a line of continual descent from the
heavenly courts to a world all seared and marred with the curse, and in
a world unworthy of His presence, descending lower and still lower,
taking the form of a servant, to be despised and rejected of men,
obliged to flee from place to place to save His life, and at last
betrayed, rejected, crucified. Then, as sinners for whom Jesus suffered
more than the power of mortal can portray, shall we refuse to humble our
proud will?  

     Study day and night the character of Christ. It was His tender
compassion, His inexpressible, unparalleled love for your soul, that led
Him to endure all the shame, the revilings, the abuse, the
misapprehensions of earth. Approach nearer Him, behold His hands and His
feet, bruised and wounded for our transgressions. "The chastisement of
our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed."  

     Lose no time, let not another day pass into eternity, but just as
you are, whatever your weakness, your unworthiness, your neglect, delay
not to come now.... The call of Jesus to come to Him, the presentation
of a crown of glory that fadeth not away, the life, the eternal life
that measures with the life of God, has not been of sufficient
inducement to lead you to serve Him with your undivided affections. . .
.  

     Be no longer on Satan's side of the question. Make decided, radical
changes through the grace given you of God. No longer insult His grace.
He is saying with tears, "Ye will not come to me, that ye might have
life" (John 5:40). Now Jesus is inviting you, knocking at the door of
your heart for entrance. Will you let Him come in?  

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