Dear Friend – Our loving Saviour softly and tenderly calls:“Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light” (Matthew 11:28-30).Friend – the Lord does truly care for you! He gave His all for you! He wants all to come to Him and promises to save all that will do so. “All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out” (John 6:37).Life throws us many obstacles. Some are self-inflicted; others are just life. The Lord knows each of them and does truly care. He desires to rectify the most important issue.The issue is called sin. “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23). No one is without sin. “As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one” (Romans 3:10-12).The penalty for sin is eternal death. “For the wages of sin is death…” (Romans 6:23). “And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire” (Revelation 20:15).The blessed Saviour Jesus Christ came to this cursed earth of sinful man to pay for your sin and mine with His own precious blood on a cruel cross. He said: “I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world” (John 6:51). “In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:” (Colossians 1:14). Jesus paid it all.All people must repent. “…except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish” (Luke 13:5). Repentance is not something you do or don’t do to earn favor with God. Repentance is a change of your heart and mind—recognizing how terrible your sin is with a godly sorrow.God wants all to truly repent.“And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent” (Acts 17:30).Know you are a lost sinner deserving of hell. Cry out as the poor publican in Luke 18:13, “And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.” This is your opportunity, my friend; salvation and eternal life in Jesus Christ, or death and hell because your sin remains.A jailer who kept Paul and Silas in prison, feared God, repented, and came trembling before Paul and Silas: “Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas, And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house” (Acts 16:29-31). Glory to the mighty God! A sinful jailer was saved that day.You too, my friend, God wants to save. “But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:” (John 1:12). “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life” (John 6:47). “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved” (Romans 10:13). This is our lovely Lord Jesus’ promise.Call upon Him now, delay not a second, dear friend. The Lord will hear and save you today.After trusting in Christ, find a good Bible-believing church. Study His Word and grow in the faith in Christ.
