Taking the medicine

Whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.               —  Romans 10:13

Suppose you are rushed to the hospital, where a physician examines you and informs you that you are critically ill. He says you’ll die unless you have proper treatment. He then prescribes medicine and says, “If you will take this, I can assure you with absolute certainty that you will get well.”

Now, what should you do? Should you just lie there on your sickbed and believe that the doctor has diagnosed your illness correctly, and that the prescription will surely make you well? No, that’s not enough. To live you must take the medicine.

It’s the same with salvation. You may believe everything the Bible says about Christ — that He died for your sins and rose from the dead. But if you refuse to “take Him” — that is, to trust Him and His work on the cross in your behalf — you will be just as lost as if you had openly and blatantly denied Jesus.

Saving faith, you see, is not simply acknowledging that certain facts about Christ are true. It is reaching out to personally accept God’s remedy for sin. It is entrusting the destiny of your soul to Him for eternity. It is saying, “Save me, Lord Jesus. I believe that You can and will.” That’s “taking the medicine” — that’s receiving Jesus Christ! Have you done that? If not, do it right now.   — Richard De Haan

The perfect righteousness of Christ

Is free to everyone;

But we by faith must take that gift,

And trust God’s precious Son.   — D. De Haan

READ: Isaiah 55:1-6

Faith is not just believing that Jesus can save; it’s asking Him to do it.

The Bible in one year:

• Judges 13-15