TO A NEW CONVERT by F. B. Meyer

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Mar 14, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 11.

TO A NEW CONVERT.

By F. B. Meyer

Witness-bearing.

TAKE every opportunity which presents itself to bear witness to your new Master, Christ. "Let the redeemed of the Lord," cries the Psalmist, "say so, whom He hath redeemed from the hand of the adversary." It is a great help to the religious life to allow it to express itself. Have you been brought out of the horrible pit and the miry clay? Say so. Are your feet upon a rock? Say so. Is a new song in your mouth? Say so. Has the morning sunshine broken in? Say so. Have you peace with God and the assurance of salvation? Say so. Have you victory through the blood of the Lamb? Say so. Attribute all the glory and praise of your new life to God, but do not hesitate to say what you have experienced.

Each new convert should set himself to enclose for God a piece of the great moorland waste of the world, weeding it, digging it up, and sowing it with the good seed. Let it be either a class of Sunday-school children, or a boys' life brigade, or a tract district, or some other branch of Christian service—but there must be, where at all possible, some opportunity of bearing a regular and systematic witness to Christ. You must have a patch in the harvest-field, a hand-breadth at least in the building of the temple of God.

Upholding Christ's Banner.

Will this absolve you from all further responsibility?—No, for your witness is apt to become stereotyped and formal if it is only given to the same people and under the same conditions. You must go further afield; and whenever the name of Christ is flouted and His Gospel misrepresented, whenever untrue and uncharitable reports are being manufactured and circulated, wherever souls perish because of wreckers' false lights, wherever the spoiler is creeping up the pass and no other voice will be raised to warn the unsuspecting peasantry—there you must confess your Lord and Master before men, or risk being denied before His angels.

This habit will also greatly promote your own growth in grace, "for with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation" (Rom. 10:10). As we speak of Jesus to others, He becomes more precious to ourselves; and even if our testimony is resisted and refused, this, too, will turn to our salvation through the increased "supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ" (Phil. 1:19). Obey, then, the injunction of the Lord, when He says: "Go to thy house, unto thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and how He had mercy on thee."—F. B. Meyer.