George was a boy about twelve years of age. One night he dreamed that he saw a bright light in the sky with many stars around it. 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.
It was only a dream, but God sometimes speaks to people by dreams, as you will see if you get your Bibles and read Job 33:14-30. Well, He certainly spoke to George that night, and I am glad to tell you that George listened to His voice.
Do you listen, dear reader, 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.
But to resume my story, George ban to think, Would he be left behind if the Lord were to come? 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. Then 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, George. 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 so many of those 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 die and suffer for sinners on the cross. But though he knew all about it, he had not yet laid hold of it by simple faith until God sent him this message in a dream to teach him the necessity of being “ready.”
Now, dear young friends, will you let this be a message from God to you? Jesus is coming. What George dreamed will surely take place one day, and that soon, for He says, “Behold, I come quickly.” (Rev. 22:9-12.)
He will not take all. Which of you will go? God tells us in His Word, “They that were ready went in with Him (Jesus) to the marriage, and the door was shut” (Matt. 25:10). Oh! 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.”
I was reading in the newspaper a few years ago the account of a sleeping car taking fire, and of poor Dr. Arthur, who was traveling to Aberdeen, being burned to death.
At the inquest, one of the porters gave evidence that he thought all the passengers were rescued from the burning coach, for he looked in and could not see anybody. But for fear there should be anyone asleep, he cried out loudly at the door: “Is there anybody in here? If so, save yourself.” The Doctor was evidently in a deep sleep, perhaps rendered unconscious by the smoke, and quite unable to save himself. And so he perished.
Our Lord Jesus Christ did not treat us thus. He did not call out to us from His glorious throne in heaven, “Poor sinners, you are in great danger. Save yourselves.” No, He came into the world to SAVE sinners, “He loved us and gave Himself for us.”
“He died, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God.”
ML 06/07/1959