I want to tell you, dear children, about a boy I know.
One night, he dreamed that he saw a bright light in the sky with many stars around it, and that, as he looked, the sky opened and the Lord came out and took all true believers up to be with Himself, and the rest were left behind. The people in the street where he lived were filled with astonishment, and could not think where their neighbors had gone.
Now, God sometimes speaks to people by dreams, as you will see if you get your Bibles and read Job 33:14-30, and he certainly spoke to George that night, and I am glad to tell you that George listened to His voice.
Do YOU listen when God speaks to you? It may be by a dream, the death of a loved companion, or, as He most certainly has spoken to you, by His Word.
George began to think, would he be left behind if the Lord were to come? and feeling he was not ready, he became so sad that he could get no rest about the matter all the remainder of that week.
Saturday night came but no rest nor peace came to his troubled soul. On Sunday he was left alone with his mother in the evening, and still burdened, he said to her,
“Mother, how can I know that I am saved?”
“You must receive the message; that dream was a message from God to you, you must receive it,” she replied.
The following morning he told his mother that he was saved, that he had received the message.
George, like many who read these pages, knew the plan of salvation in his head. He had been brought up by Christian parents, who had taught him from his earliest days about the blessed Saviour, who came to suffer and die for sinners on the cross. But though he knew all about it, he had not yet appropriated it by simple faith, until God sent him this message in a dream to teach him the necessity of being “ready.”
Now, dear children, will you let this be a message from God to you? Jesus is coming; this dream will have its fuilment, some day, and will be soon, for He says, “Behold, I come quickly.” Revelation 22:7,12,20.
“The Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive and remain, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we ever be with the Lord.” 1 Thessalonians 4:16,17.
He will not take away all. Which of you will go? God says, “They that were ready went in with Him (Jesus) to the marriage, and the door was shut.” Math. 25:10.
O! while there is yet time, come to the Lord Jesus, trust in Him, and you will be saved from the judgments that are coming on this poor world.
“Behold, now is the accepted time; behold now is the day of salvation.” “Be ye therefore ready also.”
ML 07/08/1945