A Personal Matter

A Personal Matter "Christianity," said Martin Luther, "is a religion of personal pronouns." How true!

It is not, we are all sinners; but

I am a sinner.

It is not, Jesus is a Savior; but Jesus is MY Savior. A young man in the West Indies once said to the preacher:

"I believe all you say, and I like your preaching; yet I am not saved. How is that?"

"Have you ever," replied the preacher, "got into the presence of God and said, ’Oh God, if there were not another sinner in the world, I am one. As a sinner, I claim Christ as my Savior, even though every other sinner refuses Him’?"

"Well," said the young man, "it is your very personal way of putting it that I do not like."

There was the answer to his problem. He was not saved because he refused to make his own soul’s salvation a personal matter between himself and Christ ― the One with whom we have to do.

"Marvel not that I say unto thee, YE must be born again." John 3:7.