“You have not chosen me but I have
chosen you and ordained you”
John 15:16
By these words the Lord is definitely pointing out that he takes first step in
choosing. We do not know Him first; and it is only when we accept Him as our Lord and
Saviour that we understand this mystery.
I would like to tell you how the Lord chose me. I was very bitter against the
Gospel of Christ. Though I was educated in a mission high school in the Punjab and
spent seven years there, I never cared to know any thing about Christ. Most of us boys
who were studying in the school hated Christians, and we used to make fun of Bible
teachers and pastors. For five years I was in the boarding house. The Hindus and the
Mohammedans lived on one side and the Christians on the other. During my five years’
stay in that boarding, house I do not think I ever’ visited the Christian side. That will
give you some idea of my bitterness towards Christianity. I do not remember what I
learned in those days, but I recollect that I used to hate the Christian boys who were
studying with me. Most of us Hindu boys had a similar hatred against Mohammedans.
But while with Mohammedan boys we used to play and talk freely, I do not think we ever
made friends with Christian boys.
Once I had a beautiful Bible given to me after I had passed my Intermediate
examination. I tore away the contents and kept the cover because of the beautiful leather
binding. Throughout my school and college days I remained a bitter enemy of the Gospel
of Christ. I was very orthodox in my own religion and spent many hours in the Sikh
temples observing all the religious rites. Some of you may know that the Sikhs are well
known for social service. I also took an active part in such work but I cannot say that I
ever got any real joy in observing such rites or doing such service.
During my school days I used to have a dream. The Dream was that I was
climbing a high and steep hill. With great difficulty and struggle I would reach the top.
As soon as I reached it, somebody would come along and hurl me down. As I fell, the
sharp points of the rocks would dig into my ribs. Thus I would be in great pain, so much
so that I would cry out in my dream. But in the end I would find myself lying on soft silk
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cushions, so soft that I would sink into them. This lying on soft cushions would give me
a heavenly feeling and I would say that, if one could get such joy on silk cushions, it was
worth undergoing all the pain endured while falling down. When I was at the age of nine
or ten I used to have this dream, but about six years ago this dream came to me, again,
and the Voice said to me, “This is your testimony.”
Like every schoolboy, I had many ambitions and ideas. Some of them were very
high and some of them low, some of them noble and some of them base. With all
humility I can say that I realized all my ambitions and desires. It is saying much, but
there is not a single desire that I have not satisfied. My efforts and plans to satisfy my
desires can be compared to my climbing this steep hill. But at every self-satisfaction and
self-realization I was disappointed and disillusioned. So the disappointments and
disillusionment represent my fall from the top of the hill. But the day came in my life
when I experienced the joy of lying on the soft silk cushions and that day was when the
Spirit and the life of Jesus Christ entered into my life.
My ambitions in life had been to go to England, travel around the world, obtain
high education, enjoy the friendship of all kinds of people and remain faithful to my
religion. Similarly I had a desire to wear smart clothes and eat high class food. I did not
have these desires at an early age but they came later on and I was able to satisfy them
all.
My father was not at all in favour of my going to England. He told me that he
would give me any amount of money as he wanted me to help him in his business. He
had set up a new cotton factory and he told me that he was counting on me, as the eldest
son, for help. But I would say that I must go to England. After my B.A. examination I
became very sad because my father would not let me go to England and nothing else
would satisfy me. We were six brothers and my mother loved me more than any other of
her children. So she said, “ I will help you to go to England but promise me that you will
not change your religion.” I said to my mother, “Do you really believe that I would
change my religion?” as at that time I was very proud of my Sikh religion. When I
assured her about my loyalty and faithfulness she persuaded my father to let me go. My
father being a business man was thinking in terms of money; my mother being a religious
person was thinking in terms of religion. My father, however, said that he would try and
send me all the money I needed and I promised that I would live very economically.
In September 1926, I reached England and joined the Engineering College in
London for the Mechanical Engineering Course. When I got there I discovered that one
could live very comfortably on eighty rupees a month. So I asked my friend why he
wrote to me to come prepared to spend Rs. 300 a month. I said I was going to write to
my father not to send me more than Rs. 80 a month. My friend said to me, “Don’t be
hasty. You wait for a few months and you will learn all about it.” So I accepted his
advice. With the result that I had to send false accounts. I used to write to my father, “I
have spent Rs. 295.56 this month”, even though I spent only eighty rupees. Thus for
seven months I was able to save sometimes Rs. 200, sometimes Rs. 250 a month and I
remember I had at the end of the period Rs. 1600 in the bank.
For the first three months in England I remained faithful to my religion. I kept
my long hair and beard because the Sikhs never get their hair cut from any part of the
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body. Then I lost faith in keeping a long beard and hair but did not have the courage to
get them cut. So I kept them on for six months, because I was afraid of what my friends
would say if my beard were shaved, At last I thought of a solution. I said to a friend of
mine that I would get them cut gradually, some that day, some the next day and in a
month time all of it, I thought that by this means I would not feel embarrassed but what
he did was to cut the beard from one side and leave the other half. So I said to him, “You
may as well cut all”. When I became clean – shaven I became an atheist, a socialist and a
free thinker, and I said I would soon become a full-fledged European. Then I started
smoking though as a Sikh I had never touched tobacco, I began to purchase expensive
cigarettes and bought a gold case, and took great pride in showing the golden cigarette
case to everyone. The next thing I did was to learn the use of liquor. I used to have very
expensive clothes and spent Rs.400 for a suit, as much as Rs.35 for a shirt, Rs.20 for a tie
and Rs.50 for a pair of shoes. Thus my savings of seven months I spent in one month. I
learned then why my friend said no to be hasty.
With great difficulty I learned all the Western customs and manners. Although I
never relished their food, yet I learned to eat with a knife and fork. I was regular in
visiting theatres, cinemas and dancing halls. I had to master everything, or, in other
words, do as they did and live as they lived. I lived like this for about two years. Just as
I was finishing my course I asked myself a question, “What have I gained in England?” I
knew I had learned to wear a collar and tie, to polish my shoes, to brush my hair and to
say “Thank you” and “I am sorry” many times a day, because the more you say “Thank
you” and “I am sorry” the more you are considered to be cultured. I had learned to be
fashionable and to drink as they drank; in other words, I had learned how to worship my
body. Then I began to ask the question,” Am I more happy than I used to be?” But the
state in my mind told me that I was far worse, for I had become selfish, proud and
greedy. The respect towards parents and friends was -one. I had learned to tell lies
politely and to deceive my parents. I had learned that one could do evil, provided he did
it secretly.
I had travelled all over Europe and England; had been to museums, art galleries
and picture palaces; had worn expensive clothes; had eaten grand meals; had made
friends with rich and poor, high and low; had taken part in social functions; had indulged
in amusements; had acquired as much education as I wanted; yet I was unhappy. Then I
thought perhaps it was due to the fact that I was not fully civilized. So I began to ask my
English friends; “Are you happy?” I asked this question of students, professors and clerks
I used to say, “You have cot beautiful homes, lovely children, extensive parks, and can
get almost anything for bodily comforts. Are you Happy?” Still I could not come across
any one who was really happy. So I said to myself that the whole world is “vanity of
vanities”. I used to think if India were civilized it would become a heaven, and that
education and sanitation would remove all evils from India. Now I saw that England
could not get rid of her evils by education and sanitation. Rather I saw far more evils in
England than in India. So I was convinced that culture and education could not solve this
problem. I used to consider the question in this manner: A poor man in India uses a dirty
rag, to cover his wound, while a rich man in England conceals his wound with bandage
beautifully white and three yards long, which however, cannot remove the pus and the
dirt underneath.
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In the year 1928 a party of students was going, to Canada on a holiday trip. I
wanted to go with the party but the secretary would not let me go. He said that the
Americans did not know how to treat the Indians. So he advised me not to go with the
party. I told him I was prepared for any kind of treatment and joined them on the ship,
determined to show that I could do whatever they did. As there was a big party on board
they had all kinds of amusements and I began to take part in all these functions. On the
10th of August, 1928, I saw a notice showing that a service would be held in the first-class
dining saloon at noon. I said to myself that as my friends and companions would be
going to the service. I should also go but a fear came to me, as I had never been to a
church before. But I said to myself that I had been to picture palaces, dancing and drink
saloons and they had done me no harm. So I thought a Christian place of worship too
would do no harm. Moreover, I had heard that the first class dining saloon was a grand
place, and I thought it would be a good opportunity to see it. So convincing myself with
these arguments I went and occupied one of the back seats. When they all stood up to
sing hymns I stood up too, and when they sat down I sat down too, and when the preacher
began to preach, I went to sleep as I did not want to listen. When the sermon was over
they all knelt down to pray and I was the only person who kept sitting in the chair. I said,
“These people do not know anything about religion. They have exploited my country and
I have seen them eating and drinking. What do they know? After all my religion is the
best religion.” So my national, intellectual and religious pride prevented me from
kneeling and I wanted to go out. But I found one man kneeling on the right and another
on the left and I said it would not be right for me to disturb them. Still I could not kneel.
Then I began to say, “I have been to Mohammedan mosques and Hindu temples. I have
taken off my shoes and washed my feet to show respect for those places. I must honour
this place too out of courtesy.” So breaking my national pride, I knelt down.
Please note that this was the first time I was attending a Christian service. I had
never read the Bible before nor had anyone spoken to me about salvation. When I knelt
down I felt a great change coming over me. My whole body was trembling. I could feel
divine power entering into me and lifting me up. The first change that I noticed in me
was that a great joy was flooding my soul. The second change was that I was repeating
the name of Jesus, I began to say, “Oh, Lord Jesus, blessed be The name, blessed be Thy
name.” The name Jesus became very sweet to me. Before, I used to despise the very
name, and during discussions and conversations I had made fun of it. Another change I
found was that I felt one with Europeans. During my stay in London I never felt their
equal, Sometimes I was their superior, sometimes their inferior, When I used to talk to
the English people I felt superior. I used to say that I belonged to an ancient country
havina an ancient culture; but when I used to talk to Indians I felt inferior saying that we
did not know how to cat or dress properly. But this was the first time I was feeling quite
their equal.
I stayed for three months in Canada, We travelled a great deal and came back to
England, where I decided to attend a church service, So in the month of November, 1928
I attended m first Christian service in a church. When the people came out after the
service, I began to look at them but I could not find any joy in their faces. I said surely
these people had come for a funeral. I could not understand why they were looking so
serious. I felt that there was something wrong, because my conception was that those
who know Christ must be very happy. From that time I stopped going to church on
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Sundays but used to go on weekdays when the church was empty. In the city of London
there are grand old churches where I spent hours sitting on empty benches, and I felt
great peace there.
One year passed by, but I never told my Christian experience to anyone nor did I
have the courage to do so, but the desire I had for smoking and drinking was all gone.
Nobody told me to give this up, but I was so happy that I did not have the need for
stimulants.
In 1929 I came back to Canada. I had to go there to finish my Agricultural
Engineering course. I had to spend some time in the factories where they manufactured
the agricultural implements, and had to go to the farms, where these implements were
being used.
In the month of December I came to the city of Winnipeg. On the 14th of
December, 1929, I said to a friend of mine, “Could you lend me a Bible?” He looked very
much surprised and said, “You, a Hindu and an Indian, want to read the Bible? I have
heard that Hindus do not like the Bible.” I said, “You are right. These very hands have
torn up a Bible. These very lips have blasphemed against Christ. But for the last
eighteen months I have a great love for the Lord Jesus. I love His very Name, which
sounds so sweet to me. But I do not know yet anything about His life and teaching.” My
friend put his hand into his pocket and gave me his pocket New Testament. From that
day till now his Testament has been with me. This was my first pocket Testament. I
brought it to my room and began to read from the Gospel of St. Matthew. I kept on
reading till three in the morning as I became engrossed in the Word of God. In the
morning I found the whole ground covered with snow, and I remained all day in bed, just
to read.
The second day I was just reading the Gospel of St. John, 3rd chapter, when I
came to the 3rd verse. I stopped at the first part of the verse. The words, “Verily, verily, I
say unto you” convicted me. Just as I read these words my heart began to beat faster. I
felt someone was standing beside me and saying again and again, “Verily, Verily I say
unto you.” I used to say, “The Bible belongs to the West,” but the voice said, “Verily,
verily I say unto you”. I have never felt so much ashamed as I felt then, because all the
blasphemous words I had uttered against Christ came before me. All my sins of school
and college days came before me. I learned for the first time that I was the greatest
sinner, and I discovered that my heart was wicked and filthy. My petty jealousies against
my friends, my enemies, my wickedness were all clear before me. My parents thought
that I was a good boy, my friends regarded me as a good friend, and the world considered
me a decent member of society, but only I knew my real state. Tears were rolling down
my cheeks and I was saying, “Oh! Lord, forgive me. Truly I am a great sinner.” For a
time I felt that there was no hope for me, a great sinner. As I was crying again the Voice
said, “This is my body broken for you; this is my blood shed for the remission of your
sins.” So I knew that the blood of Jesus only could wash away my sins. I did not know
how, but knew that the blood of Jesus only could save me. I could not explain the fact,
but joy and peace came to my soul; I had the assurance that all my sins were washed
away; I knew that the Lord Jesus was reigning in my heart. I just kept on praising Him.
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After two days the same friend came to me and said, “It is Christmas time, and it
is our custom to give our friends some presents.” I said, “Please do not give me any
presents,” because I did not have any money to return him a present. But he insisted and
so I said, “Alright, if you want to give me a present, give me a Bible as I have only a New
Testament with me.” He took me to the bazaar and said to me, “Make your own choice.”
He gave me the Bible which I have with me, the book that I love most and which is so
dear to me. So I went to my room and started with the book of Genesis. I was so
engrossed in it that I used to spend sometimes fourteen hours at a stretch, reading it. On
the 22nd of February, 1930, I finished the whole Book. In the meantime I had also studied
the New Testament several times. Then I started reading the Bible a second and third
time. I gave up reading magazines, newspapers and novels. I had accepted the Bible as
the Word of God from the first verse of Genesis to the last verse of Revelation, and no
doubt has ever entered into my mind regarding any verse.
Formerly I used to wonder why some Christians had joy and some had not. But
later I found out that those who entertained doubts about the Bible did not have real joy.
Before I could not understand the evils I had been noticing around me, but the Bible
solved all my difficulties. For two years I kept on reading the Bible. During my second
reading, I came to the verse in Heb. 13:8: “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and
forever.” I had been suffering from nasal catarrh for many years. I had consulted the
best English doctors, but they had done me no good. My eyesight too had become very
weak. So I prayed, “Wilt thou heal my nose and give me eyesight?” In the morning
when I woke up, I found to my great joy I was healed. That revealed to me that my Lord
Jesus Christ was the same yesterday, today and forever. From that time, I have had the
privilege of praying for the healing of many and the Lord has wonderfully answered my
prayers,
On the 4th of February, 1932, I was baptized in Vancouver, Canada, and after
baptism I was going on from place to place giving my testimony. During the first week
of April, 1932, I was invited to give a talk about India. After the meeting was over they
kept on asking questions, “What do you think of the missionary work in India?” I began
to criticize it very harshly. As I came home and knelt down to pray, I found I could not
pray and the Voice said to me, “Who are you to interfere in my work? You want others
to be sacrificing but yourself lead a life of comfort.” These words pierced my heart like a
sword. They were true. I had so many plans to come back as an Engineer. I had said
that I would give all my money for the Lord’s work. But He said, “I do not want your
money; I want you.” That morning I knelt down and asked His forgiveness and said,
“Oh! Lord, wilt thou accept me? I am prepared to go anywhere, whether to India, China
or Africa. I am going to give up everything for thee, friends, relations, belongings.” The
Lord said, “You will have to live on faith. You must not ask anyone for any thing, not
even your friends or relations. You must not ask for even a cup of coffee; you are not to
make any plans.” I said, “Lord, on the one hand you want me to give up all my claims on
my property and home, and on the other hand you want me to live simply by faith. Who
is going to provide for my needs?” The Lord said, “that is not your business.” Although,
six years have passed, I can testify to His glory that I have never asked any man for
anything, not even my best friends. But the Lord is richly supplying all my needs. For
one year I remained in America as a preacher, because I had given up all my plans to
become an Engineer.
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On the 19th of October, 1932, 1 wrote to my father about my conversion. On the
15th of November I prayed that the Lord might send someone to my father to explain the
letter, which I had written to him about my conversion, as it was a long letter and I had
given references from Genesis to Revelation. On the same day my father went to see an
American missionary in my hometown. On the 21st of November, 1932 when he got my
letter, he went to see the same missionary with whom he had become acquainted and said
to him, “I have this letter containing many references from the Bible. Can you explain
them?” The missionary gave him a Bible in Urdu and explained to him how to look up
references. After looking up all the references, he was convinced that my conversion was
according to real conviction. So he wrote to me saying that he had no objection and that
he was pleased to know that I was happy in my faith.
On the 6th of April, 1933, I arrived in Bombay after seven years of absence. My
father and mother came to meet me. When I came down from the ship the first thing my
father said to me was, “Only your mother and I know about your conversion. Will you
please keep it a secret and call yourself Sikh for the sake of the family honour? You can
read the Bible and go to church but do not tell any one that you are a Christian.” I said,
“Can I live without breathing? When Christ is my life how can I live without Him?” I
told him that I had given my whole life to Christ.” He asked me, “Are you going to
become a missionary? Are you going to be a padre?” I said, “ No.” He replied, “if you are
no good to us why don’t you be of some good to yourself. If you become a padre or a
missionary some body will at least respect you. When you are going from place to place,
who will listen to you and how will you support yourself?” I explained that God had
called me for this work, but he could not understand. He said, “ If you cannot keep the
matter secret you cannot come home.” So my father and mother left me in Bombay, and
I began to do some Christian work there. After two or three weeks I got a letter from my
sister. She wrote to me, “I have heard that you have come back. Will you come and see
me?” She did not know that I had become a Christian. She thought I was merely trying
for a job in Bombay, so I went to Karachi to see her. When my sister saw me preaching
in the bazaar and going to church, she wrote to my father saying, “Things are dangerous.
Come soon.”
My father came to Karachi immediately. The same evening there was a family
gathering—my sister, brother-in-law, my brothers, and my father. My sister became very
angry and began to abuse me. She said to me, “You have left a high and noble religion
and have become an outcaste.” I said, “I am worse than and outcaste, because you cannot
see the state of my heart. The Lord Jesus has told me that I am the greatest sinner. When
I said that my sister became very angry and started to say some words against Christ. My
father asked for my Urdu Bible and I gave it to him. He began to read from the New
Testament certain passages. “We sent for you to reprimand him, but you are preaching
for Christ,” said my sister. My father replied, “You have no right to say anything against
the Lord Jesus, because you do not know anything about Him. You can say what you
want against your brother but do not say anything against Christ.” They were all taken
by surprise and the meeting came to a close.
The next day my father attended a church service. After the service we were
walking in the street when I met a Sikh whom I had the privilege of bringing to Christ.
He told his experience to my father. My father said to him that when he had left me in
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Bombay he became unhappy and so went to see sadhus and sanyases and asked them
how to get peace. But all of them said that it was a difficult thing to achieve. So one
Sunday my father happened to pass by a Church in Lahore. The service was about to
commence, and so he got in without any particular intention and occupied a back seat.
Just as the service began he saw a great light. As he saw the bright light shining he cried,
“Oh Lord, Thou art my Saviour too.” Then a Great peace came to his soul.
Before leaving Karachi, my father said to me, “You can come home when ever
you want.” So I went home. All my friends, relatives came to see me, and from morning
till night they continued to reprove. Every man and woman had something to say.
However I kept quiet. Afterwards my father said to me, “Why don’t you give your
testimony in the Church?” But the Indian padre in the local Church would not agree, He
said, “You have so many relations and friends in this town it would be dangerous, as they
are bound to create trouble.” I said, “I am prepared for everything.” So in the newly built
church, meetings were held and people of all classes came. There was hardly any room
left either outside or inside. There I gave my testimony. After the meeting was over,
many people gathered around me and said, “We want to ask you some questions.” I said,
“Yes, you are quite welcome.” The first question was “Does your religion allow you to
disobey your parents? Does your love permit you to disappoint your parents? When
your father had spent Rs. 25,000 on your education, surely it was your duty to ask his
consent before you became a Christian. Look at your father; he is broken-hearted. Do
you call this love?” I was about to answer when my father spoke out. My father has a
loud voice, as I have. So he said as loudly as he could, “I am not at all broken-hearted.
Why do you drag my name into it? I am convinced that my son has real peace. Before
you ask any more questions, I want to know whether there is anyone standing here who
can say that he has eternal peace in him. I know that my son has real peace. Please come
forward if you have. I will not allow anyone to ask these questions unless he has real
Peace.” When the people heard this they looked at me and my father and dispersed one
by one.
Since then I have had the privilege to go to my hometown many times, and have
conducted several meetings in the local church. Now the first hatred they had against me
is gone. My father is definitely born again and is testifying. He is very faithful, but he is
not baptized yet. He says that he is waiting for my mother. My mother is very religious.
She says that she has given her son to the Lord Jesus Christ and she has faith in Him.
Once my mother had an attack of typhoid fever, my brother brought an English doctor to
treat her. When he left, my mother said, “I do not want any medicine. You pray and I
shall be healed.” That, very night the Lord healed her. My father reads to her from the
Bible ever day, and she listens attentively. My father is born again, and one of my
younger brothers is baptized.
“Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the
labour of the olive shall fail and the field shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off
from the fold, and there shall be no herb in the stalls: Yet I will rejoice in the Lord. I
will joy in the God of my salvation.” (Hab. 3: 17-18)
We often wonder how we can realize the constant presence of God, how we can
find out the perfect will of God and how we can become a means of the salvation of
loved ones, friends, neighbours and enemies. “All that the Father giveth Me shall come
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to Me; and him that cometh unto Me I will in no wise cast out.” (John 6:37). The Lord
Jesus Christ is assuring us in those words that He will welcome anyone who wants to
know Him and have Him and to be possessed by Him. So those of you who are heavy
laden with sin and worldly care, are being invited at this time to come unto Him without
wavering. May I tell you that from the very minute you make an effort to come to the
Lord Jesus Christ all the powers of darkness will begin to work in your heart and create
doubts, fears and misgivings. But we get assurance from the same Lord who say, “All
power is given unto Me in heaven and in earth” (Matt, 28:18). We also read in Jeremiah
29:13, “And ye shall seek Me and find Me, when ye shall search for me with all your
heart.” Then the Lord says, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth, on me hath
everlasting life” (John 6:47). Your part is to kneel and believe on Him, and His part is to
give you the gift of eternal life, which is being offered to us freely. “For by grace are ye
saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God” (Eph. 2:8). So, my
reader friend, if you are being convicted by the Holy Spirit of your sins and sinful nature,
do not be afraid of all the doubts and fears which are being put into your mind by the
Enemy. Accept the Lord Jesus in your heart and He will come into you, the hope of
glory. “To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery
among the Gentiles which is Christ in you the hope of glory” (Col. 1:27). The coming in
and the living of the Lord Jesus Christ in our hearts is called the experience of the New
Birth. It is a simple experience of accepting the living Lord Jesus Christ in our hearts, as
the Lord Jesus says, “Behold I stand at the door and knock: if any man hear my voice and
open the door I will come into him and will sup with him and he with Me” (Rev. 3:20).
The Lord Jesus will never force His way into our hearts. If you hear His voice please
harden not your heart. The very minute you read this book is the time of your salvation.
“For He saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I
succored thee behold now is the accepted time, behold, now is the day of salvation” (2
Cor. 6:2). If you do not obey His voice now your heart will become harder and harder
and the light rejected will become darkness. The Spirit of God will not always strive
with man. “And the Lord said My spirit shall not always strive with man” (Gen. 6:3).
The spirit of God has been striving with you, bringing before you all your sins and the
stink of your sinful nature. Remember one day your very bones will being to rot with the
stink of sin, and the sin which you are covering by garbs of culture, civilization, manners,
customs, smiles, and smooth words will be uncovered one day. “For there is nothing
covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid that shall not be made known” (Luke
12:2).
People throughout the world and throughout the ages have been trying to cover
sin. The leper may succeed in covering his spot of leprosy in its initial stage, but one day
the leprosy will appear upon the fingers and toes and other parts of the body. In the same
manner, our sins are brought to light by the searching eyes of God. May I beg you to
kneel down and say these words before the Lord, “Search me, oh God, and know my
heart: try me, and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me and lead
me in the way everlasting” (Psalm 139:23-24).
As soon as you kneel down and begin to say these words be prepared to have your
pride broken and the root of your sin burnt out by His precious blood: the Holy spirit will
bring before you the sins committed from your childhood days and you must
acknowledge them with these words, “I acknowledge my sin unto Thee, and mine
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iniquity have I not hid, I said I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; And Thou
forgavest the iniquity of my sin” (Ps.32:5). Confession means humility: God cannot
make exceptions. Unless we confess our sins upon our knees and confess all of them,
some kind of pride will remain in our hearts, and God cannot come into a proud heart.
“For thus saith the high and the lofty one that inhabiteth eternity, whose Name is Holy; I
dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to
revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the contrite one” (Isaiah 57: 15).
The nearer we draw unto the Lord, the more we realize the corruption of our
corrupt nature. Job, when he saw God, said these words: “I have heard of thee by the
hearing of my ear; but now mine eyes see thee. Wherefore I abhor myself and repent in
dust and in ashes” (Job 42: 5-6). After confession we are ready to receive the Prince of
Peace into our hearts, and the very minute we accept Him as our Lord we become His
children. “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). So to believe in His Name
means to receive Him as the living Lord Jesus Christ into our hearts after our sins are
washed away by His blood. We are also drawn near to Him by His blood. “But now in
Christ Jesus ye who sometime were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ” (Eph.
2:13). And the same Blood of Christ purges our conscience from all dead works. “How
much more shall the Blood of Christ who through the Eternal Spirit offered Himself
without spot to God purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?”
(Heb. 9:14). As long as our conscience is not purged we are unable to conquer sin. So
my friend, as soon as you accept by faith the Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ for purging
of sins, you are free from the bondage of sin and the bondage of corruption, and then you
will be granted liberty from every kind of fear.
There are three things which are offered to us as free gifts, on account of our
accepting the Lord Jesus Christ as our personal Saviour. Firstly, victory over the world.
“For whatsoever is born of God overcome the world: and this is the victory that
overcometh the world even our faith” (1 John 5:4). Secondly, victory over sin. “We
know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth
himself and that wicked one touch him not” (1 John 5:18). Thirdly, we are given victory
over death. “The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is law. But thanks be to
God which giveth to us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ” (1Cor. 15:56-57).
Having received these three gifts we become co-labourers with the Lord Jesus
Christ. “For we are labourers together with God. We are God’s husbandry, we are God’s
building” (1 Cor 3:9). Having become co-labourers we are made to sit together with
Him. “And hath raised us up together, and made us to sit together in heavenly places in
Christ Jesus” (Eph. 2:6). Those who become the co-labourers of the Lord Jesus Christ
become also partakers of His heavenly kingdom and all things that belong to Him.
“Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours; whether Paul, or Apollos,
or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present or things to come; all are
yours; And we are Christ’s and Christ is God’s” (1Cor. 3:21-23). And having the
assurance of possessing all these things we have perfect peace in our hearts. “Peace I
leave with you, my peace I give unto you; not as the world giveth give I unto you. Let
not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid” (John 14: 27).
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My dear reader friend, I invite you to accept on this occasion these words in the
Name of the Christ. As you read these words, fall upon your knees acknowledging Him
as the Lord of lords, the Prince of peace, the King of kings, and as your own personal
Friend. I can say from my experience that there is no joy in the world to be compared to
the joy of having Lord Jesus Christ living in us. He is solving my problems; answering
my questions, bearing my burdens, giving strength to overcome temptations, and
enabling me to share my joy with others, and at the same time He has given me the
honour of walking and talking with Him every step of my life’s journey. Will you accept
Him as your Lord and Saviour this very day? May the Lord Jesus bless you. My prayer
is that the Lord may grant you an understanding of his hidden mysteries, and by simple
faith that you may claim great things from the great God.

Bakht Singh 1903 – 2000, India’s Billy Graham and more