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On a given Sunday, I preached a message directed especially to the church. At the conclusion of the message, an altar call was given. One of our finest young men came to the altar. If I had guessed as to who might come to an altar of prayer it would not have been this young man. After we had prayed with him for a while he stood to his feet and said: “I haven’t gone into open sin. It’s not what I’ve done, but what I’ve failed to do.” Then he said, “I’ve tried to get along on a minimum---a minimum of prayer, a minimum of reading God’s Word, and a minimum of my time to His service. In failing to do what I should have done---I lost out. But thank God, it is all right now, and it is going to be different in the future.

I’m wondering how many Christians this you man testified for when he said, “I’ve tried to get alone on a minimum.” Oh, I know the argument---we’re living in a busy day. That’s true, but if we’re too busy to saturate our souls with His Presence in the closet of prayer, too busy to feed our souls on the living Word, and too busy to give some of our time in the great task of leading men to God, then we are far busier than God ever expected us to be!

It took more than the minimum to provide salvation for the human race. The songwriter wrote, “Jesus paid it all.” Yes, He made the supreme sacrifice in order that the lost of Adam’s race might know the joy of sins forgiven. He left the halls of Glory and walked the dirt roads of earth that finally led to Calvary’s cross that we might one day see the inside of heaven. Yes, the song writer wrote, “Jesus paid it all,” but note that he went on to write, “All to Him I owe.” It took His all---how can we expect to make it on just a minimum? [ The End ]

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