All Of Grace (Moody Classics)

by Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Faith saves us because it makes us cling to God and therefore brings us into connection with Him. I have often used the following illustration. Years ago a boat was upset above Niagara Falls. Two men were being carried down the current when persons on the shore managed to float a rope out to them. Both seized it. One of them held onto it and was safely drawn to the bank. But the other, seeing a great log come floating by, unwisely let go the rope and clung to the log, for it was bigger and apparently better to cling to. The log with the man on it went right over the vast abyss, because there was no union between the log and the shore. The size of the log was of no benefit to him who grasped it; it needed a connection with the shore to produce safety. So when a man trusts to his works or to sacraments or to anything of that sort, he will not be saved, because there is no junction between him and Christ. But faith, though it may seem to be like a slender cord, is in the hands of the great God on the shore side; infinite power pulls in the connecting line and thus draws the man from destruction. Oh, the blessedness of faith because it unites us to God!