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In Touch of Heart
But who are these of whose happy condition in the spirit world we are so sure, and of which we know so much certainly? All who have gone? It pains one to say an emphatic no to that question.
I have said it is those in touch of heart with God. I have not used that good Bible word, "believe". The two phrases, "in touch of heart with God," and "believing on the Lord Jesus," really mean just the same thing.' Then, why not use this last common Bible phrase?
I'll tell you why. "Believe" has been twisted so much out of its simple fine true meaning. It has been made to mean believing things, believing creeds and church formulas, and so on. It really does mean just what I have used here. It means touch of heart with God. And that touch can be only through Jesus Christ.
That simple language includes a changed attitude toward God where the life has been wrong. It means all that believe, and trust, love and devotion, can mean. There must be the real personal touch of heart with our Father-God, who is known only to anyone anywhere through Jesus Christ, the Man who died on Calvary.
I have not spoken of Church membership. Simply because it, too, is another of the fine things that has suffered at men's hands. It has been severely discounted. The true thing is really at a premium. It is to be feared that there are those in church membership who are not in touch of heart with Jesus, God to us. And it is quite clear that there are many not in church membership, many who have no opportunity for that fine privilege, who yet are in the real touch of heart that is the decisive thing.
And I have not spoken of when they have come into that saving touch. With some it may have been a life-long experience; with some a much shorter story. Some come creeping in at close of the day of life, as a tired child creeps into the mother's lap and snuggles down contentedly.
The mother would not turn away her child. And certainly the Man who died will not turn away any that really in heart turn to Him with as much as half the blinking of an eager asking eye.
There will be distinctions made up there, as we have seen, intelligent thoughtful distinctions. But anyone who comes for that touch of heart, however inarticulately expressed, will find himself in the blest presence of Christ at the close
of his day of earthly life. And where believing prayer has been sent up for loved ones, there will be that touch some time. Of that there can be no question.