Security of the believer

Mr. Meyer said that one time when he was pastor at Leicester, there was a strike.  The working people smashed and ruined homes in their riot.   One day they threatened to come into a house where was a big brother riveting shoes in the attic upstairs and a little fellow downstairs.  The little fellow feared they were going to break the house open.  He went to the stairs and called his big brother:  

"Tom, Tom, they are goin to smash this door open!  Hurry up and come down!"

Tom was a strong, well-built man and he came down and put his big body against the door and said:

"Now, youngster, you go on with your game.  All the rioters in Leicester can't break this door open when brother Tom stands against it!"

"And so," said Mr. Meyer, "the devil often wants to come back into this house of mine, and I am afraid of him and when he comes along and swears he will  take me by force, I go to the foot of the ascension ladder and cry":

"Christ, Christ, stronger than the strong man armed, make haste and come down!  The devil is going to get me!!"

"And He seems to come," said Mr. Meyer, "like the lightning flash and puts himself against the door of my heart and all hell can't break the door open."

written by William E. Biederwolf, page 16 in ​One Thousand Evangelistic Illustrations. edited by Webb, A. (1924).  New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers

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