THE SAVING GRACE – CHARLES H. SPURGEON

On 05 January 1850, fifteen year old, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, who later in life would become, one of the notable preachers of all time, had a life transforming encounter with the LORD Jesus Christ. He had entered a little Methodist church because of cold and snow on the street.

About ten minutes after Spurgeon entered the Church, the preacher began to preach. There were only about twelve to fifteen people. The preacher, for some unknown reasons, looked straight at Spurgeon, and addressed him directly: “Young man, you look very miserable.” Then, lifting his hands, the preacher shouted, “Young man, look to Jesus Christ. Look! Look! Look! You have nothin’ to do but to look and live.”

Talking about his conversion, Spurgeon later wrote, “Oh! I looked until I could almost have looked my eyes away.” He further explains his conversion experience thus – “I can never tell you how it was but I no sooner saw whom I was to believe than I also understood what it was to believe and I did believe in one moment.”

My dear friends, brothers and sisters, how wonderful to see the grace of God seeking this young teen, on a cold snowy night? It speaks of the heart of God, towards the lost world. Oh, what a loving Saviour is the God of all creation! The Word became flesh, and emptied Himself, to seek and save that which was lost. 

Unless the LORD Jesus Christ, touches our hearts, and transforms us, all our efforts to become good and acceptable are of no use. What looked like an accidental arrival of Surgeon at the little Methodist Church, is in fact, no accident at all. The LORD in His grace, has pursued Spurgeon, as Francis Thompson would say, “Hound of Heaven.” Have you experience this heavenly love? “…look to Jesus Christ. Look! Look! Look! You have nothin’ to do but to look and live.”