Come with me to an underpass outside of the freight yards of one of our great railroad centers. Here are 2 or 3 men – hobos, vagabonds, tramps.
One says, “I hope that I will have a million dollars.”
Another says, “I hope that I will have two million dollars.” A third says, “I
hope that I will have ten million dollars!”
The total assets of the three amount to forty-three cents!
Now go to the paneled board room of one of New York’s great
banks. Here are several captains of industry. One explains that the expansion
of our economy calls for the expenditure of 60 millions dollars to build a new
chemical plant. A Du Pont says that he will put up 15 million dollars; a
Rockefeller agrees to duplicate this sum; a Ford & a Mellon nod their
agreement & the matter is settled.
But you ask, “Gentlemen! Do you really have money like
that?” They nod with assurance & say, “We know that we have it.”
“You mean that you hope that you will have it?” we question.
“No,” they reply, “we know that we have it.”
The difference between a tramp & a multimillionaire is
the difference between a professing Christian - who hopes that he will have
eternal life and a possessing Christian - who knows that he has eternal life.
- Donald Barnhouse (ministry127.com)
Rom 8:16 (TLB): “For his Holy Spirit speaks to us deep in
our hearts and tells us that we really are God’s children.”
“If any man is not sure that he is in Christ, he ought not
to be easy one moment until he is sure. Dear friend, without the fullest
confidence as to your saved condition, you have no right to be at ease, and I
pray you may never be so. This is a matter too important to be left undecided.”
- Charles Spurgeon.
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