Conversion by Kingsley

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 17, 1859

Conversion.

By Kingsley

Do you think that your sins are washed away in Christ's blood, when they are here still, and you are committing them? Would they be here and you doing them, if they were put away? Do you think that your sins can be put away out of God's sight, if they are not even put out of your own sight? If you are doing wrong, do you think that God will treat you as if you were doing right? Cannot God see in you what you can see yourselves? Do you think a man can be clothed in Christ's righteousness at the very same time that he is clothed in his own unrighteousness? Can he be good and bad at once? Do you think a man can be converted—that is, turned round—when he is going on his old road the whole week? Do you think a man has repented—that is, changed his mind—when he is in the same mind as ever as to how he shall behave to his family, his customers, and every body with whom he has to do? Do you think that a man is renewed by God's Spirit, when, except for a few religious phrases, and a little more outside respectability, he is just the same old man, the same character at heart he ever was? Do you think that there is any use in a man's belonging to the number of believers, if he does not do what he believes; or any use in thinking that God has elected and chosen him, when he chooses not to do what God has chosen that every man must do or die?—Kingsley.