I DON’T want to be a Christian.”
A boy was the speaker, and he spoke to his sister F.
Some months earlier she had been brought to know the Lord Jesus as her own personal Saviour. Now she was rejoicing in-the knowledge that all her sins were blotted out; that she was a child of God; that heaven was her home; and that Christ who was there was living to keep' her safe and soon coming to take her to be forever with Himself.
She longed that her brother might have this joy also, and so she had spoken to him.
“Why don’t you. want to be a Christian?” she asked.
“O! all Christians die young,” was his reply.
He thought that to be a Christian was to be miserable, and meant that he would not be able to enjoy a good game, and would soon be cut off.
This was thirty years ago. F. has not died yet. She loves the Saviour, is joyful in His love, and seeks to win others for Him still.
True Christianity gives real lasting happiness and makes childhood and youth an manhood or womanhood bright and glad some and useful. Come to Him now.
“Jesus Christ; whom not having seen ye love; in whom, though now ye see Him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory.” 1 Peter 1:7, 87That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: 8Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: (1 Peter 1:7‑8).
Messages of God’s Love 5/15/1932