Many years ago, there came to Chicago a man who sold goods for a New York firm. He had been stealing money from his company until the amount totaled a few thousand dollars. The man had worked out a plan by which he thought to stifle his conscience. He would work hard all day and go out to places of amusement at night, and remain to a late hour.
One day in a Chicago hotel, he was stropping an old-fashioned razor, and, looking for a piece of paper to wipe the blade on, he tore out a page from a Bible found in the hotel room. Starting to wipe the blade, his eye caught these words, “For the wages of sin is death …” Conviction struck his heart, and smoothing out the page, he read, “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord” (Romans 6:23).
The startled salesman read the Bible for two hours, and then on his knees beside the bed with the Bible open in front of him, he acknowledged himself to be a sinner and in need of a Saviour. Realizing a new life had been bestowed upon him, he wired the firm in New York that he was returning. He made a confession of the stolen money. This man was not discharged but allowed to pay back the stolen money each month from his pay.
“For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing assunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart”(Hebrews 4:12).