Afternoon lessons and addresses were over in a Sunday school not long since, and the classes were leaving in their usual order, when a girl went to get her little brother from the infant class of boys. She found him just ready to cry, and he said to her in a most dismal tone,
“O, I don’t want to be left behind.”
“No, dear, of course not,” answered his sister; “I have come now to take you home, as I always do, you know.”
“O, I don’t mean that at all,” said the little fellow; “I mean what the teacher has been talking about.”
“And what has he been talking about?”
“Why, about the Lord Jesus coming soon to take all who love Him up to live with Him; and the teacher said some people would be left behind, and, O, I don’t want to be left behind.”
The little boy’s sister perhaps told him that those who put their trust in the Lord Jesus would not be left behind when He comes to call away all of His own, for he trotted home happily by her side.
Now, does not this incident show plainly to you, dear children, that even the youngest in the Sunday school—tiny boys and girls in the infant classes —can understand and can remember something at least of what is told them by their teachers if they will only pay attention.
The Lord Jesus is certainly coming, and we know not how soon, to take all His own people—all who love Him—to be forever with Himself in glory. He loves little children particularly, and wishes them to come to Him now, and be ready to go to be with Him when He comes.
Should you be willing to be “left behind,” or do you say from your inmost heart, like little Willie, “I don’t want to be left behind?”
If so, accept the Lord Jesus as your Saviour right now, and you will be “ready,” and you will be one of His watching and waiting ones.
If your father or mother, whom you love so dearly, has been away from you for some time, and you know that he or she is about to return, but you do not know the hour, yet you want very much to be the first to run out and meet them, do you not keep waiting at the door, and watching from the window to catch the very first sight or sound of their coming? Our Lord said,
May that rich blessing be yours, dear little reader; may you so be found,
“Abiding in Him that you will not be ashamed before Him at His coming.” 1 Jno. 2:28.
O, think of the joy, the bliss of meeting the Lord in the air, and of going Home with Him! Think also of what it would be to be “LEFT BEHIND.”
ML 10/21/1945