"Christianity," said Martin Luther, "is a religion of personal pronouns." How true this is!

It is not, We are all sinners, but—I am a sinner.

It is not, Jesus is a Saviour, but—Jesus is MY Saviour.

If you have not made it a personal matter like this, you are not saved.

A young man once said to me, "I believe all you say, and I like your meetings, but I am not saved. Why?"

I replied, "Have you ever gotten into the presence of God and said, 'O God, if there were not another sinner on earth, I am one, and as a sinner, I claim Christ as my Saviour, even though every other sinner refuses Him'?"

"Well," he said, "it is your personal way of putting it that I do not like."

Ah! this was the secret. He had missed the blessing because he refused to make it a personal matter.

Reader, have you made it a personal matter yet?

—The Journey and Its End