I wasn't alive in 1886 and neither were you. I've never been to Brockton, Massachusetts, and I doubt very many of my dear readers have been there, either. But something happened in that town 134 years ago that touched my life and maybe yours as well.

One night in 1886, a young man stood up to speak in a meeting following an evangelistic service conducted by Dwight L. Moody in Brockton, Massachusetts. The subject of the meeting was confidence of salvation. The young man said, "I'm not quite sure (about God saving him from his sins), but I'm going to trust and I'm going to obey."