ONE day a preacher called at a certain home and talked to the lady of the house. When her husband came home she told him about the visit.
“What did he say?” asked the husband.
“He asked, ‘Does Christ live here?’; and I did not know what to answer.”
With a flushed face the husband asked, “Why didn’t you tell him that we were respectable people?”
“But that isn’t what he asked me,” she replied.
“Then why didn’t you tell him that we go to church, and say our prayers, and read the Bible?”
The wife replied, “He didn’t ask me any of those things either. He only asked me, ‘Does Christ live here?’ “
Neither the husband nor his wife had the personal knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ as their Saviour. They could speak of their religion, and of their good life, but that is not what the preacher had asked. The most important question of all they could not answer.
I know the answer the preacher would have received had he come to the door of the house in our picture! The lady of the house could tell him that she had opened her heart and received the Lord Jesus Christ as her own Saviour. And perhaps the Lord Jesus may be known and spoken of in the house where you live too, but let us bring the question a little closer. Each boy and each girl, as well as each of the older people, must answer this question personally. Have you yourself taken your place before God as a lost sinner and trusted in the precious blood of Christ that cleanses from all sin?
Some day, very soon we believe, the Lord Jesus is going to come in the sky and give a shout, calling all His own to be with Him in heaven. If your father and mother are saved they will go up to meet Him in the air, but what about you? Have you received Christ into your heart?
Now admit the heavenly Guest: Let Him in!
He will make for you a feast: Let Him in!
All your sins shall be forgiven: And when earth-ties all are riven, He will take you home to heaven: Let Him in
Messages of God’s Love 4/14/1957