As I sit writing this story, I can see three pictures on my desk. Two girls and one boy are smiling at me from their picture frames, and I love to look at them, for they are our own three children.
It reminds me of what Mr. Wallace told me one day after he had visited in a home where there were two girls playing happily in the parlor. On the wall hung a picture of a happy little boy. Mr. Wallace stepped closer to look more carefully, and then he noticed four words written underneath. The four words were, “Called and found watching.”
“That was my little brother Freddie,” said Patsy.
“Freddie has gone up to heaven to be with the Lord Jesus,” added sister Winnie.
“Mother,wrote those words under the picture,” added Patsy. “She told us that Jesus had taken our little brother up to heaven.”
“I’m so glad Freddie is in heaven,” said Mr. Wallace. “How does your mother know that Jesus took him there?”
“Oh, we’re all sure about that, because we know the Lord Jesus died to wash away our naughty sins. Our brother Freddie trusted in the Lord Jesus as his own Saviour, so we know we are going to see him again some day with Jesus.”
Happy children! I wonder if the rear of this story has done what little Freddie had done. Have you trusted the Lord Jesus as your own Saviour? Some day you will be “called”—will you be ready?
“Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto Me; for of such is the kingdom of heaven.” Matthew 19:14.
ML 11/21/1954