WHY CAN'T YOU TRUST CHRIST?
In a recent sermon, Mr. Spurgeon related the following incident:— “A young woman came to me last night in deep distress, and I set before her the way of salvation, and said, ‘Trust in the salvation of Jesus Christ.’ ‘Oh! I feel—’ she said. ‘I don’t care,’ I replied, ‘what you feel. Will you tell me any reason why you should not trust the Lord Jesus Christ?’—‘I don’t know any reason; but—’ ‘Can you trust me?’—‘Oh, yes sir, I can trust you with anything.’ ‘Then you must not talk in that way, and say you can trust me, a sinful man, and not trust the Lord Jesus Christ. It’s ridiculous. Trust a man, and not trust the Son of God! Can you tell me any reason why you can’t trust him? Will you show me anything he ever did, why you should not trust him? Will you explain to me on what grounds you dare to say you cannot trust him?’ ‘But, sir, I feel—’ ‘I don’t want to know anything about your feelings, I want to know why you can’t trust him. He says he is able and willing to save you; can you trust him?’—‘But yet you know—’ she said. ‘But I don’t know, and I don’t want to know. I want to know why you can’t trust him. Did he not stand in the room and place of every soul that trusts him? Do you think he is unworthy of your confidence?’ She looked at me at last, and said, ‘You won’t let me do anything else but think about Christ.’ ‘No; why should I? I want to drive you to him. Tell me why you should not trust him?’ She stood up, and said, ‘I cannot imagine any reason why I could not trust him.’ ‘And why don’t you?’—‘Yes, I do; and am I really saved?’ ‘If you really trust him.’ ‘Of course I am saved,’ she said, gladly. ‘I see it now. How was it I did not see it before?’ He says ‘I am saved, for are not these his own words, “He that believeth on me hath everlasting life”?’ I am so glad you would not let me talk about my feelings, and kept me to that point; for now I see it all.’”—Selected.