Many have forsaken Christ. They walked away and never came back. But tell me—what reason do you have to do the same?

Look back at your past. Has Jesus given you any cause to leave? Has he not proved himself all-sufficient? He appeals to you this morning with a piercing question: "Have I been a wilderness to you?" When your soul has simply trusted Jesus, have you ever been confounded? Have you not found your Lord to be a compassionate and generous friend every step of the way? Has not simple faith in him given you all the peace your spirit could desire?

Can you so much as dream of a better friend than he has been to you? Then why would you change the old and tried for the new and false?

And what about right now? Can the present compel you to leave Christ? When we are hard beset with this world, or with the severer trials within the Church, we find it a most blessed thing to pillow our head upon the bosom of our Savior. This is our joy today—we are saved in him! And if this joy satisfies your soul, why would you even think of changing? Who barters gold for dross? We will not forswear the sun till we find a better light! We will not leave our Lord until a brighter lover appears! And since that day will never come, we will hold him with a grasp immortal, and bind his name as a seal upon our arm.

And the future? Can you suggest anything that could arise that would make it necessary for you to mutiny? To desert the old flag and serve under another captain? We think not!

If life be long—he changes not. If we are poor, what better than to have Christ who can make us rich? When we are sick, what more do we want than Jesus to make our bed in our sickness? And when we die? Is it not written that neither death, nor life, nor things present, nor things to come, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord!

So we say with Peter: "Lord, to whom shall we go?"