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How to Trust Him

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 10, 1871

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 38, No. 17.

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How to Trust Him.

“But I don’t know how to trust Christ for my Saviour,” said a young girl. “I hear what is said, but I don’t understand how it is: I do not see the way.” “Do you feel,” said one who had addressed her, “that you are a sinner and in danger of being lost?”
“I do feel; I feel I am condemned for dreadful sins.”
“And what can you do for yourself in the case?”
“Oh! I cannot do anything. I have tried, and tried; but I get no better.”
“Jesus says to such as you, ‘believe in me; trust me; cast your sins upon me.’”
“I would if I could; but when I try, it does not seem as if he received me: I am always afraid he does not. Oh! I do not know how to believe and trust.”
“Let me illustrate faith to you: The other day a little boy climbed a ladder to the roof of a house. It was an unsafe place, and his mother hastened to call him down.
The roof was slippery, and his little feet slid in the descent; so he crept to the edge, where his friends stood anxious for his safety. Mr. O. reached up his arms, ‘Now, Willie, jump, and I will catch you.’ Willie looked at the stoned pavement below, and drew back. But Mr. O. tried to persuade him, but the child was afraid to trust.
“‘Willie,’ said the mother, Mr. O. says he will certainly catch you; does he not always tell the truth?”
“‘Oh, yes! he says true,’ Willie answered.
“‘Now obey, Willie,’ said the mother, ‘don’t make him wait; he is all ready.’
“The boy trembled; but there was no other way, and he leaped from the roof. His trust in Mr. O. was faith; and when he was clasped in a pair of strong arms, he did not doubt that he was there; he was not afraid to rest. Christ tells us to cast ourselves upon him just so, and believe that he receives us.”
“Is that the way?” asked the young girl, “do you trust Christ so?”
“Yes, just in that way; simply and wholly as Willie threw himself into Mr. O.’s arms. Cannot you do so, believing that he does his part as fully as you trust me?”
“I never saw the way so clearly before. Yes, I can trust him; I do believe him. I will cast myself upon him, sin and all. O, I am so glad!”
And the face that had been shadowed with doubt and discouragement lighted up with a new-born joy.—Christian Banner.