THIS is the last day of the examinations at school. The boys and girls are coming down the street, and I notice that some of them look very happy and are laughing and talking. They are glad that the exams are over, and I guess they didn’t find the questions too difficult. Some of the others don’t seem to look so happy. They are talking solemnly to one another, and walking rather slowly. I think they too are glad that the exams are over, but they must have found the questions much harder to answer, and perhaps they are not sure that they passed.
Now I want to ask you a question, and I wonder what your answer will be. You won’t find the answer in your school books, for it is a question from the Bible.
Boys often have great ambitions about what they will be when they grow up. Perhaps some want to be engineers, or lawyers. But this question takes us right on past what you might be when you grow up. It takes you past all the money you might make, and the fine home you might live in. It takes you to the day when you shall leave this world and step out into eternity. Will your soul be saved or lost?
Oh, you say, but that is a long way off, and I am not going to think about it right now. Stop and think, dear young reader. It may not be far off at all. It may be today. Is your soul saved or lost? If you have accepted the Lord Jesus as your Saviour, then your soul is saved, and I know you are glad. But if you have not yet had your sins washed in His most precious blood, then you are lost, and When you leave your home and money all behind, your soul will be lost forever. There is still time for you to come to the Lord Jesus.
Messages of God’s Love 5/19/1957