J. T. Mawson · “Who then can be Saved?”

Consider this saying, “With men it is impossible,” and yet remember, preacher, that to save men you are sent. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE; it is impossible for a man to stay the tide as it rolls upon the shore; or to create an angel; it is equally impossible for him to save a soul. With men it is impossible. Impossible to make a man prefer faith to sight, choose the wealth of heaven to the gold of earth, abandon self for Christ, and choose God’s way instead of his own. But the saved man, according to God, does these things; and this means that his very nature is changed. But it is impossible for a man to change his own nature, or that of his fellows, just as it is impossible for him with a few magic words to change the spots of the leopard or the skin of the black. Let the word impossible sink into our souls; we have surely not sufficiently considered it, or our grasp of its meaning has been very superficial. It is impossible, impossible, IMPOSSIBLE!