Skrevet af Jørn Nielsen
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Fredag, 23. oktober 2009 09:11 |
“If you confess with your mouth….” (Rom. 10:9)
I knew her already as a baby when as a young man I came in her home in Pennsylvania. Debbie is her name. Now we had her and her fine husband in our home. What a sweet reunion! I asked her yesterday when walking with her and her husband, Dean, on the road with all the many beautiful autumn colors around us: “Have you been a Christian, since you were a little girl?” - “No”, she said and told me her story:
“I was having an argument with a girl friend about the Bible. I was 17 at that time. Coming from a Christian home I defended the things of the Bible. My girl friend said: “Of course you do, because you already believe in all this.” - But this was not true. I was not a believer. So I said to her, “I don´t believe more than you do!” And Debbie went on: “Next day as I was in the shower I thought very much of my talk with my girl friend and what I´d said. Suddenly, from my heart, I cried out to God: “Lord, I do believe!” And at that very moment, I was saved, born again, so I soon called on my girl friend and told her what had happened and that I now believe.”
I rejoiced with tears. What a simple testimony. Not two conversions are alike. But was it too “easy”? No, with her mouth´s confession she quit her unbelief and sided openly with that Lord who had died openly – in full public - for her. That didn´t take long. Oh, what a saving power there is in a mouth´s confession, when the heart has already been convicted and convinced.
“Maybe it´s only your confession that´s lacking”, an uncle said to his niece (relatives of mine) who very much wanted to believe, but didn´t manage. She later told me, “He was right. He hit the nail on the head and I confessed with my lips what I believed in my heart.” In good old days this often helped anxious souls unto joyful assurance of salvation. It still does.
Consider what Rom. 10:9-10 has to say about it.
-jn-
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