Fern Wallace
Salvation Experience
We attended a family reunion on my mother’s side in Wisconsin. I was seven years old at the time. I was reared in a Christian home and attended Sunday School and children’s church. I had heard about the way to heaven, but never made the decision to receive Christ into my heart.
One night I was overcome with a dreadful feeling of dying and going to hell as I wasn’t ready for heaven. I wanted my mother to pray for me, but was prevented from waking her up by my cousin. She sat me up on the ironing board she was using and gave me a lemon to suck on. She said I could go quietly in their bedroom and check to see if she was awake. I knelt before my mother and listened to her breathing in and out and quite deep in sleep, so I was afraid to rouse her at all.
When I awakened the next morning that awful dread had passed so I never told my mother of my experience as I had not died and passed it off as a strange experience.
At the age of ten, I heard two visiting missionaries who spoke in church. They ended it by singing “I’ll Live On.” I knew that I would not “live on” until I made things right with God. I went forward to the altar kneeling down to repent in tears and receiving an overwhelming gift of peace and wanted to share the good news of salvation and forgiveness with everyone. Of course, I shared that experience with my mother.
I like to say that sucking on a lemon will not take your sins away, but the precious blood of Jesus definitely will. All you have to do is ask.
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