Trust The Lord, Stop Trying

I once noticed a lady who sat down by the side of the pulpit, and every time I would look down her eyes would be riveted upon me. She looked so intent, trying to catch every word, that one day I said to her, “ My friend, are you a Christian?”

“Qh, no,” she said, “I have been seeking Christ these three years, but cannot find him.” I said, “There is some mistake about that;” and she answered, “Do you mean that I have not been seeking him?” “I know he has been looking for you for twenty years.” She asked, “What am I to do, then?”

“Do! Do nothing; probably that is the trouble, that you have been trying todo.” “But how am I to be saved?” she asked.

‘You are to believe on him, and stop trying.” She said, “Believe! believe! believe! I have heard that word until my head swims; everybody says it, and I am none the wiser.” I said, “I will drop that word for another.

The word believe is used in the New Testament, and the word trust in the Old. I will say to you, Trust the Lord now to save your soul.” “If I say I will trust him, will he save me?” she asked.

“If you really do trust him, he will save you.” She said, “I trust the Lord to save me; now I do not feel any different”— just so in one breath. I told her, “I think you have not been looking for Christ; you i been looking for feeling. God does not tell you to feel; he tells you to trust him, and you are to let the feelings take care of themselves.”

‘“T have heard people say they felt happy when they became Christians.” ‘“ Well, wait till you become a Christian, and then you may talk about a Christian’s experience; you must trust the Lord that he will keep you.”

She sat there five minutes, and then put out her hand to me, and said, “I trust the Lord Jesus Christ to save my soul now.” That was all there was to it, no praying, no weeping. The next night I was preaching she was in front of me, and I could see eternity written on her face, and the light from fields of glory in her eyes. Moody.