Draw Near – 365 Guides to Greater Intimacy with GodSample

HE WANTED TO TELL Many years ago, on a Southern battlefield, a soldier lay dying. An artery in his arm had been shattered severely by a shell fragment. A passing physician stopped and bandaged the youth's wound, saving his life. The army doctor was about to leave when the young man called, "Doctor, what is your name?" To this, the physician replied, "It doesn't matter." "But, Doctor," the man said, "I want to tell my wife and children who saved my life." When Christ comes into our lives binding up broken spirits and saving our souls, we want to tell others Who saved our lives. This was the same feeling Andrew experienced when he met the Master. He could hardly wait to run and tell his brother: The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother Simon and tell him, "We have found the Messiah" (that is, the Christ) (John 1:41). When we find the joys of salvation, we also have the responsibility and privilege of telling others about the comfort we have found. We, like the redeemed songwriter, can sing: "Shout salvation full and free; highest hills and deepest caves; this our song of victory, Jesus saves! Jesus saves!" We, like Andrew and the dying boy on the Civil War battlefield, will want to tell of the One Who saved us.