Am I One
of the Elect?
This was the tormenting question that continually harrowed
the mind of Frances P --. “If I am one of the elect then I will be saved, and
if I am not – then I’ll be lost.” It
was but another of Satan’s deceptions to keep her from Christ. Election is a most blessed and comforting
truth of Scripture, but it is one of the family secrets of the household of
faith. The awakened sinner needs a Saviour, for he is lost, he is dead and
needs life, guilty and needs justification.
Will election save, will it quicken, will it justify? I am a personal sinner and I nee a personal
Saviour. Did election die for you? Has not God taken to Himself the title,
Saviour-God, and think you He will share His glory with another, or with aught
else? Even supposing you could search
the registers of Heaven and find your name inscribed there, would that help you
to peach, would such a piece of information put your sins away? Oh, dismiss this foolish thought! Rebuke the enemy by at once accepting
Christ.
“Am I one of the elect?” I cannot say. But I can assure you of this, on the
authority of God, that you are a sinner, and unless you repent and believe the
gospel, you must perish. Election did not die on the cross for you, and it is
the cross of Jesus Christ alone which determines your character and position
before God.
You want to be saved sometime, but – when? WHEN?
“Oh, the misery of my soul,” she afterwards related, “as I
wondered if mine was saving faith, if I was believing with my head or my
heart. How sure I felt I could be, if I
could only feel happy. But God would
not have us feel happy for our assurance.
If that were the case, where would the assurance be during testing
times, in the dark and cloudy day? Ah,
no! Our salvation must rest upon His Word, and that alone, and then what a sure
foundati9on we have. Before I was saved
the “Believing verses” seemed hard for me.
Having heard this expression, “The devils believe and tremble,” I wondered how I could know if I am believing
to the saving of my soul. But when John
Weary and
worn and sad:
I found in
Him a resting place,
And He has
made me glad.”
“Lord, are there few that be saved?” was a curious question
once put to our Lord. Did He gratify
the idle curiosity of the man? No; but He addressed a solemn word to the
consciences of His hearers. “Strive to enter in at the strait gate; for many, I
say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able” (Luke
Why will you raise up barriers where God has erected
none? Why will you oppose your own
salvation? Why trouble your mind about that which in no wise concerns you? God will save you now. If you wait longer you may perish. Is not Christ, in the glory bright above,
the witness of the perfect putting away of sins. What more would you have? Could God do more than He has done to set
you in peach before Him? He gave His
Son, who “appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself” (Heb.
“Never let what you do not know disturb what you do know,”
said a wise and good man.
Never forget that He who said, “All that the Father giveth
Me shall come to Me,” immediately added: “And him that cometh to Me I will in
no wise cast out” (John
“Oh,
precious words that Jesus said:
“The soul
that comes to Me
I will in
no wise cast him out,
Whoever he
may be.”