“For God’s Sake, Save Me!”

A wounded Tommy was lying on the ground, and the battle was raging around him. He cries in his agony, “For God’s sake, save me.” A comrade hears him, lifts him up, slings him across his back, and hurries away as fast as he can to a place of safety. He has snatched his comrade from the jaws of death. “For God’s sake, save me.” How often have I heard in my soul that cry from the trenches and the battlefields: the cry of souls seeking Christ when face to face with death. There is only One can save them in that awful need, but He is always ready and willing to save, and He would have us send them His Word to read about His salvation.

Read this incident sent me by a Christian friend: ―
“WON’T YOU COME TO CHRIST NOW?”
The battle raged, shot and shell were dropping into the British lines like rain from the clouds. A stray piece of shrapnel lodged itself in a soldier’s cheek, seriously damaging one of his eyes. At the same instant as the shot struck him he felt a touch upon his shoulder and a voice whispered in his ear, “Won’t you come to Christ now?” He turned, but saw no one at the moment. It seemed a voice from heaven. Looking along the trench, he saw a young soldier running quickly. Listening, he heard the same question being repeated in the ear of every man whom the young soldier passed.
“Won’t you come to Christ now?” The words went home to the soldier’s heart. He considered for a few seconds, as he lay wounded in the trench. The shell might have meant instant death, but he had been preserved. The opportunity was seized, and there in the trench, lying badly wounded, he gave his decision: “Yes, I will come to Christ now.” He came and found those words spoken by the Lord Jesus Christ quite true, “Him that cometh to Me I will in no wise cast out” (John 6:37). Today he lives in Ireland, a bright testimony to the grace of God.
Reader, allow me to whisper that question in YOUR EAR: “Won’t you come to Christ now?” You have heard the gospel often, no doubt, and have had many opportunities of accepting Christ as your Saviour. You may not be in such a perilous position as the soldier of whom you have read, but, be sure of this, death is busy today. Are you prepared? Oh! turn to the Saviour. He is able and willing to save you. Able, because He has met every claim of God against you. He has borne in His own Person all the consequences of your sins. Willing, because He loves you and desires to have your trust. Let your heart go out with the soldier’s, and say, “Yes, I will come to Christ now.” God grant it.
C. S. Ross