June 18

Christ’s witnesses

“Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord” (Isa. 43:10).
“If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved” (Rom. 10:9).

A witness is presumed to know something, to have something to tell, and he is considered bound by all the solemnities of an oath to divulge whatever he knows touching the pending case. Accordingly God has placed every renewed man on the witness-stand, and He now bids him proceed with the story of His redemption. It is also recorded, “With the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” Faith, which works by love, or interests the affections in the exercise of confiding trust, brings the blessing of righteousness; but salvation, full and continuous, is made to hinge upon confession from the lips. Smothered fire goes out, but live coals, exposed and swept by the winds of Heaven, will glow and kindle into a flame. It is so with experimental grace.


It has been the general belief of our people, that when reputed Christians cease to speak of the dealings of God with their souls, they are in the condition of the man, who, being asked, “Have you got religion?” replied, “None to speak of.” It is the nature of religion to tell itself.
Testimony is the conveyance of facts, by speaking or writing, from those who have personal knowledge of them, to those who have not.
—I. Taylor.

Help me to sing, help me to sing!
My captive heart is Thine!
Thy love has sought me and has won
The life I thought was mine.

Now would I offer back to Thee
One consecrated song,
I would the music ever be
Courageous, brave and strong.
—John Wright Follette.

God has not retained many of us as lawyers, but He has subpoenaed all of us as witnesses.

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