WHY NOT BELIEVE IT? by M. Wood

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 14, 1879

WHY NOT BELIEVE IT?

By M. Wood

“Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.” Isa. 1:18.

Oh, why can we not believe the word of God? We are not slow to believe what an earthly friend tells us. The physician tells his patient he is sick; he believes it, and takes the remedy administered, although it may be poisonous, and may result in serious injury. But why distrust God, when he has shown such infinite love and unfailing wisdom in providing the plan of salvation. Your heart may be covered with the foul stains of sin; yet there is a remedy in Calvary’s fountain, where every shade of pollution may be washed away.

But, sinner, you must go to the fountain for yourself; you must accept the proffered pardon; you must step into the troubled waters of your own free will, if you would be made clean. Only believe you are accepted, put away your sins, turn with deep abhorrence from your former course of life, and come to Christ as your Saviour. He saveth unto the uttermost. Jesus says, “Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.” “Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.” Do not wait for a more convenient season; but come now, and accept of salvation on Christ’s own terms. Come, without money and without price.

M. Wood.