| Devotional Hours with the Bible |
Chapter 17 |
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There is an old legend that Mohammed once, in passing along the way, touched a plant of mallow, and it became a geranium and ever since had been a geranium, pouring fragrance everywhere. Christ did something far more wonderful that day. He touched this sinful soul, and it was transformed into beauty. That is what He is doing everyday, and can and will do for everyone who creeps to His feet in penitence and faith.
Another of Christ’s words of comfort to the woman was, “Go in peace.” Peace comes with forgiveness. There never can be any true peace while sins are unforgiven. The dwellers on the slopes of Vesuvius plant their gardens and live in their villas and go on with their work and pleasure, and yet they know that beneath them sleep evermore the awful fires of the volcano, which any day or night may burst out and sweep them away to death. The sinner with his life’s sin unforgiven can never have true peace. He is sleeping over a volcano. But when sin is forgiven there is peace with God.
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