Just then, when you are willing to turn towards God, salvation may be yours.
I find that every case of conversion recorded in the Bible was instantaneous. Repentance and faith came very suddenly. The moment a man made up his mind, God gave him the power.
God does not ask any man to do what he has not the power to do. He would not command “all men everywhere to repent” (Acts 17:30) if they were not able to do so. Man has no one to blame but himself if he does not repent and believe the Gospel.
One of the leading ministers of the Gospel in Ohio wrote me a letter some time ago describing his conversion; it very forcibly illustrates this point of instantaneous decision. He said:
“I was nineteen years old, and was reading law with a Christian lawyer in Vermont. One afternoon when he was away from home, his good wife said to me as I came into the house, ‘I want you to go to class-meeting with me tonight and become a Christian, so that you can conduct family worship while my husband