Mr. Thompson was troubled. He was not troubled about his health for he was a strong and healthy man. Nor was he worried about money, for he had a good job, and money in the bank. Shall I tell you what troubled him? It was his sins! Now Mr. Thompson was not what you would call a bad man, in fact all his neighbors thought he was a very good man. But he knew he was a sinner before God.
When Mr. Thompson was a little boy, called “Dick,” he went to Sunday school, and heard again and again of God’s wonderful love in sending the Lord Jesus to die for sinners. He believed all he heard, but he had never taken the Lord as his own Saviour, and so had never been cleansed from those sins.
On this certain day as Mr. Thomon walked along with his troubled thoughts, he saw a crowd gathered on a corner and stepped over to see what had happened. There he saw a blind man, with a white cane hanging over his arm, reading aloud from a big raised-letter book. He was feeling the letters with his clever fingers, and reading for the passers-by to hear. He had just reached the bottom of the page and came to the words, “None other name.” Then as his fingers hunted for the next words at the top, he kept reating “none other name... none other name.”
Mr. Thompson didn’t wait to hear more. Something about those words seemed very familiar to him, and brought back memories of his Sunday school teacher. Do you know the rest of that verse?
Our friend went right home and got down the Bible which he had so long neglected and began hunting for those words, “none other name.” At last he found them in Acts 4 and verse 12.
“Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.”
He knew what it all meant. He knew that there was no other name but the name of Jesus that could bring peace and salvation to his troubled heart. He had been quite regular at church, and had even taught Sunday school himself, but still he was not saved. Now at last he had found it for himself. In simple faith he knelt and accepted the Lord Jesus as His own Saviour, and his sins were gone. Will you do the same?
ML 02/12/1956