"Feelings" is the last plank the devil sticks out, just as your feet
are getting on the "Rock of Ages." He sees the poor trembling sinner
just finding his way to the Saviour, when he shoves out this plank,
and the poor sinner thinks he's "all right now." Some sermon you have
heard arouses you, but then you feel all right when you get on this
plank. Six months after, perhaps, you are dying, and the devil comes
along when you think you're quite safe. "Ah," he tells you, "that was
my work; I made you feel good." And where are you then? Oh, take your
stand on God's word, then you cannot fail. His word has been tried for
six thousand years, and it has not failed.
So I said to the lady, "Have no more to do with feelings; but, like
Job, say, 'Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him.'" She looked at
me a few minutes, and then, putting her hand to take mine, she said,
"Mr. Moody, I trust the Lord Jesus Christ to save my soul to-night."
Then she went to the elders and said the same words. As she passed out
she met one of the church officers, and, shaking his hand, said again,
"I trust the Lord Jesus to save my soul."
Next night she was right before me again. I shall never forget her
beaming face; the light of eternity was shining in her eyeballs! She
went into the inquiry-room. I wondered what she was going there for;
but when I got there, I found her with her arms round a lady friend,
saying, "It's only to trust Him. I have found it so." From that night
she was one of the best workers in the inquiry-room, and whenever I
met a difficult case, I got her to speak to the person, and she was
sure to help them.
"WORTHY OF ALL ACCEPTATION."
Surely you can trust God to-night. You must have a very poor opinion
of God if you cannot trust Him. You have only to come to Him
thus--receive Him, trust Him. What more can you do, and what less can
you do than trust Him? Is He not worthy of it? Now, let us be
perfectly still a moment, and while the voice of man is hushed, let us
think of one passage of Scripture "Behold, I stand at the door and
knock." That is Christ standing at the door of your heart, knocking;
and He says, "If any man hear My voice, and open the door, I will come
into him, and will sup with him, and he with Me." Will any one
to-night pull back the bolts, and say, "Enter, thou welcome, thrice
welcome One. Blessed Saviour, come in." God grant that all here may do
this!