YOU CAN TRUST HIM

 

YOU CAN TRUST HIM Offer yourselves to God in gratitude for having been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him to be used for his righteous purposes. Romans 6:13  I went one night to hear a sermon on consecration. No special message came to me from it, but as the speaker kneeled to pray, he dropped this sentence: “O Lord, we know that we can trust the Man who died for us.” And that was my message: it spoke directly to my heart. I rose and walked down the street to the train; and as I walked, I pondered deeply all that consecration to God might mean to my life; and I was afraid. And then, above the noise and clatter of the street traffic came to me the message: “You can trust the Man who died for you.” I got on the train to ride homeward; and as I rode, I thought of the changes, the sacrifices, the disappointments which consecration might mean to me; and I was afraid. I reached home and there upon my knees I saw my past life. I had been a Christian, an officer in the church, a Sunday-school superintendent, but had never definitely yielded my life to God. Yet as I thought of the darling plans which might be baffled, of the cherished hopes to be surrendered, and the chosen profession which I might be called upon to abandon—I was afraid. I did not see the better things God had for me, so my soul was shrinking back; and then for the last time, with a swift rush of convicting power, came to my innermost heart that searching message: “My child, you can trust the Man who died for you. If you cannot trust Him whom can you trust?” That settled it for me, for in a flash I saw that the Man who so loved me as to die for me could be absolutely trusted with all the concerns of the life He had saved. Friend, you can trust Jesus who died for you. You can trust Him to baffle no plan which is not best to be abandoned, and to carry out every goal which is for God’s glory and your highest good. You can trust Him to lead you in the path which is the very best in this world for you. By James Henry McConkey