Because many who are called by the gospel do not repent nor believe in Christ, but perish in unbelief, this does not arise from defect or insufficiency of the sacrifice offered by Christ, but from their own fault.
—Synod of Dort.
You have "done all you could" to save yourself; and yet you have accomplished nothing. Fly, then, to Christ,—to Christ, just as you are, just as unworthy—to Christ now, "while it is called to-day." Be assured you are welcomed to all His benefits.
The compassion of Christ inclines Him to save sinners,—the power of Christ enables Him to save sinners,—and the promise of Christ binds Him to save sinners.
A guilty, weak, and helpless worm,
On Thy kind arms I fall;
Be Thou my Strength and Righteousness,
My Saviour and my All.
—Watts.
Grieve not the Christ of God, who redeems us; and remember that we grieve Him most when we will not let Him pour His love upon us, but turn a sullen, unresponsive unbelief towards His pleading grace, as some glacier shuts out the sunshine from the mountain-side with its thick-ribbed ice.
On Thee alone my hope relies,
Beneath Thy cross I fall;
My Lord! my Life! my Sacrifice!
My Saviour! and my All!
