Have You Seen Christ?
Ferrell Griswold
My dear friends, have you seen Christ? Have you come
to Him? Have you fled to Him for refuge? Have you laid hold upon Him as
alone having the words of eternal life? Salvation is in a Person, and not
in a doctrine, church, or the works and will of the flesh. Salvation is
to know Christ, to be in union with Him, to have His righteousness upon
your record, to be seen in Him as complete! If you have Christ, you have
life! If you have missed Christ, you are condemned! To miss saving faith
is to miss union with Christ! To miss union with Christ is to miss spiritual
life! To miss spiritual life is to rest under the condemnation of the law
of God. I say, you must see Christ, you, must come to Him, you must flee
to Him; you must lay hold upon Him! Again, I say, this you cannot do within
yourself! You neither have the ability, nor the willingness to come to
Him; you do not have the eyes to see Him; you do not have the life and
energy to flee to Him. This is His work within you! But here is hope: if
you now feel your heart drawn toward Him, and you desire to know Him, and
it is the cry of your heart to be possessed of Him, this is His work and
not the work of your hard heart....do not despise these workings of grace,
no matter how difficult they are on the flesh. Throw yourself upon the
mercy of Christ as a hell-deserving sinner, and if you perish, do so lying
at the foot of the cross.
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