Pastor Wilhelm Busch’s account of... - All The Good Seed Daily Devotionals for 2025

Jesus said … the one who comes to Me I will by no means cast out.
John 6:37

Pastor Wilhelm Busch’s account of his conversion during World War I continues:

“Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners”. I will never forget that hour. It was as if it struck me: “A sinner, that’s what am!” I didn’t know exactly what it meant to be saved but that’s what I wanted. And if Jesus Christ could save sinners, I had to find Jesus!

But how would I do that? Far and wide there was no one who could tell me. But the abyss had opened and I was afraid of going to hell, terribly afraid. Have you ever felt like that before? Today, when people make objections to Christianity, I say, “You have never felt the terror of God.”

I had to have Jesus. We were on the march back then. There was a shot-up farmhouse by the road. I headed towards it. And at that moment it dawned on me like a very bright light: Jesus is alive! And I can talk to a living person! If Jesus is alive, then I only need to tell Him that I want to be saved.

Until then, it had all been theory. But now I rushed into the farmhouse, locked the door from the inside, fell to my knees and prayed properly for the first time in my life. It went something like this: “Lord Jesus, I realise that You are here now. You are the only one who saves sinners. I am a sinner; I want to be saved – here, now, today! I want to become a child of God. Lord Jesus, I give myself to You.” I remember saying, “Lord Jesus, I can’t promise You anything; I have a very unstable character. But here I am.” From that moment on, He has been my Lord.

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Today’s reading: Jonah 1:1-17 · Proverbs 26:10-19