IN our picture this week we have a dear little girl asleep and her older sister has evidently been up and dressed for quite a while, and even Shep has come to her bedside to see why she is still asleep.
It is a sweet picture to see a little child fast asleep. But there is another kind of sleep that it not good and one may feel sad as he thinks of it. There are lots, of people, old and young, who are asleep as to God’s things and as to where they are going to spend eternity.
Are you, dear reader, truly awake to the facts that you have to meet God, and that there is eternity ahead? Have you thought of where you will spend eternity? Many are going on asleep as to these great facts, and God would have such awake while there is still the offer of salvation through Christ Jesus.
That name is Jesus Christ. Have you taken Him as your Saviour? If you have, you are awake as to these two great facts, and you will be able to say: “I will spend eternity with the Lord Jesus Christ.” But if you have not, you are still asleep. O, may you awake now, for the time is near when the Lord Jesus will no longer offer to be your Saviour. He will soon take the place of judge of all those who have despised and rejected Him.
Then, too, for those who may be awake to the two facts just mentioned, there is a danger of being asleep as to the reality of these things. So the Scripture says: “It is high time to awake out of sleep; for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent and the day it at hand.” Rom. 13:11,1211And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. 12The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. (Romans 13:11‑12).
ML 09/01/1918