An Awesome New Year's Story

Charles Haddon Spurgeon grew up in a Christian home, but as a boy he attended church only because it was the proper thing to do. He was not immoral or rebellious but was basically satisfied with his life and was not seeking any more religion than he had. One New Year's morning, when he was fifteen years old, he decided he ought to attend the service at his church. When the snow and cold wind became too fierce for him, he ducked into a little storefronty type church, as much to get out of the cold as anything.

"When I could go no further, he writes of the event, "I turned down a court and came to a little Primitive Methodist church. The preacher who was to have conducted the service never got there because he was held up by the weather, and quickly one of the officers had to be brough forward to conduct the service with a congregation of perhaps fifteen people. The many was really stupid. His text was, 'Look unto Me and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth.' And he just kept repeating it because he had nothing else to say." But something abuot Spurgeon caught the man's eye, and he said, "Young man, you look very miserable. And miserable in life and miserable in death you will be if you don't obey my text." He then shouted, "Young man, look to Jesus! Look, look, look!" "I looked," said Spurgeon; "and then and there the cloud was gone and the darkness rolled away and that moment I saw the Son."

Quoted from John MacArthur's commentary on Matthew