Langston Hughes Salvation Essay

Do you believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God? If so, you can be saved. Salvation begins with acceptance that Jesus Christ is your lord and savior, and you are to be brought unto him threw baptism. In Langston Hughes’s short story “Salvation”, he’s relating to the pressure of salvation brought upon children rather than being saved. “I was saved but not really saved” he says. He’s a young male in his teens who’s expecting for something unbelievable to happen. Perhaps Christ revealing himself, or just simply feeling different inside which is how his aunt described it to be. Throughout his story, it shows how pressure can cause you make a decision you are not ready to make. In his case, it was salvation. Below I will reiterate a few key points of his story that support my opinion. …show more content…
He talks about how he was sitting on the mourner’s bench amongst other sinners, which were his peers, just waiting to be saved. “I sat there calmly in the hot crowded church waiting for Jesus to come to me.” He even mentions that the preacher sang a song about the ninety and nine safe in the fold, but the one lamb that was left out in the cold. Suddenly, the preacher say’s “Won’t you come to Jesus?” “Young lambs, won’t you come”, is how Langston describes it. He watched as many of the other children get up to be saved. At this moment, he’s clearly confused because Jesus has revealed himself to the other children but is yet to come unto him. Tension is starting to rise in the church because there are still sinners sitting on the mourner’s bench waiting to be saved. Were the other children really saved? Were they embracing salvation? Could it be that they were just doing it because they were told their whole life that you should? It’s the right thing to do is what my mother told