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Can't Earn Your Salvation
Contributed by John Bright on Apr 3, 2021 (message contributor)
I read this little poem recently that did not have an author listed:
“I cannot work my soul to save,
For that my Lord hath done;
But I will work like a slave,
For the love of God’s dear Son.”
(Ravenhill, “Why Revival Tarries”, p. 56)
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