Here is a picture of the lobby of a large hotel in Texas. There is plenty of room here, isn’t there? But not a person is to be seen in it.
Do you know what this big empty Horn makes me think about? It makes me think of many homes, some of them big ones, too, that will be left empty some day. The people who Lye in them will have suddenly gone, never to return again. If I were unsaved and came to one of these homes one day and found the doors, wide open and no one there, I would be terribly frightened. Do you know why?
I would walk very quickly all through it, looking into every nook and corner, and in every room for someone, anyone, to assure me that what I was thinking had not happened. Have you guessed what I would be thinking?
If I could not find anyone, I am sure I would become very anxious and call my friends by name, hoping desperately to hear an answering voice. Do you know why?
I will tell you I surely would think that the Lord Jesus had come and taken all those who believed in Him home to heaven and left me behind.
Has anything like that ever happened to you? It did to me once, when I was small. But now, thank God, I need never have any fears of that kind again. I know that when the Lord comes into the air and gives that shout, I will be among the number who will meet Him. Yes, “Wonder of wonders, I shall he there.”
When that day comes there will be many scenes like our picture. Many homes will he left empty. Dinners may be cooking on the stove, no one left to eat them; washing out on the line, no one to take it in. Meeting rooms and Sunday schools will be left for the unsaved to weep in. The smiling Christian grocer in your favorite store, gone. Where? to be with Jesus forever and ever—and how long is that?
There’s no end to forever, is there?
Reader, where will you be when that long-awaited and soon-coming day is here? Do you believe in your heart that “the blood of Jesus Christ His (God’s) Son cleanseth us from all sin?” For we know that not one (remember, NOT ONE) sin can enter heaven, but by having our sins washed away in Jesus’ own precious blood which was shed for you and me. on Calvary’s tree, we are made “clean every whit.” We are made fit to enter into the presence of God.
The work has all been done, dear friend; will you not believe on the Lord Jesus Christ today? Be sure you will not be left behind when the Lord comes. His Word says,
ML 12/16/1951