Just Let Go!

Robert Murray M’Cheyne is revered in Scotland as one of that nation’s great Christian Preachers. Although he died at an early age, he had already become a household name in his lifetime. He was fond of telling the story of the night he preached on the text from John’s Gospel in which Jesus says, “I am the door; if any one enters by Me, he will be saved” (Jn. 10:9). A man who had listened to the sermon came to him later and said:

I’ve been a Church member all my life, but I never felt close to Christ until now. Something clicked when I heard you preach tonight, and I felt that Jesus was very near to me. Listening to you preach about Jesus’ words, “I am the door; if anyone enters by Me, he is saved,” I realized my problem for all those years: I had been trying to enter the wrong door! I had been trying to go through the saints’ door,…