The Power of a Changed Life
By F. M. W.
Of all the arguments which may be brought forward to prove the existence of God and the power of his grace, there is none so convincing and unanswerable as the effect of a changed life. When the power of God can take poor, degraded specimens of humanity, sunken in the depths of sin, the abject slaves of debasing habits, and in a single hour change the currents of their thoughts, put within their lives new purposes, new aspirations, new ideals, making the purity and loveliness of Christian character the one thing to be desired, and the old life of sin the most abhorrent, such a change as this affords an argument which can not be met by the scoff and jeer of the skeptic. Men to-day are prone to question the working of miracles and the operations of the supernatural, but we see evidences of infinite working every time a soul is converted to God. In the one created in Christ Jesus, we see a new creation, an exhibition of the same creative power which brought the worlds into existence. God's hand is not shortened, that it can not save. He can snatch to-day the sinner from the lowest pit. He can take the feet from the miry clay, and establish them upon the firm rock. His power can blot out our iniquities, and cast our sins into the depth of the sea. This is our hope. We trust in the God who made the heavens and the earth, and in the Saviour who said to the leper, Be thou cleansed, and he was cleansed; who commanded the elements to be still, and12they obeyed his voice; who spoke new life into the dead, and they came forth from the tomb. The great, convincing proof which we may give to the world to-day of the truth of his Word and the power of his gospel, is in allowing that Word to have free course in our lives, and that gospel to bring into our natures that regeneration and perfection of Christian character which it seeks to impart. By living Christ we shall demonstrate to the unbeliever the existence of Christ, and his power to do for him what he promises in his Word, and what he has done for us. Let us show forth in our experience the power of a changed life.