Some time ago, said Dr. W., while calling on my friend, Dr. B., an old man came into the consulting room. He said, “Doctor, will you give me some medicine?”
“What for?” the doctor asked.
He said, “Oh, I do not feel very well.”
“But what is the matter?”
“Well, I have a little pain here,” laying his hand on his breast. He opened his vest and revealed to the doctor a pulsating tumor.
“How long has that been there?” inquired the doctor. “What?” asked the man.
“That,” said the doctor, putting his hand on it.
“Dear me,” said the man, “I never knew it was there. Is it dangerous?”
“That is not the point,” said the doctor, “how long has it been there?
“Well, doctor, I never knew it was there at all.”
“Well, my dear man, it has been there for weeks, possibly months.”
Then he asked what it was, and the doctor told him. Then he said, “do you think I have long to live?”
The doctor, who was a Christian, looked at him for a moment, and then said, “do you want to know the truth?” “Yes, I do.”
“Then I do not think you will live long,” was his reply. “And how about Eternity? Are you saved? Have you believed on the Lord Jesus Christ? Have you accepted Him as your Saviour? Are you ready for the change?”
“No,” replied the old man, “I have never thought much about these things.”
“Well,” said the doctor, “I do not think you can be cured, and my advice to you is, it is time you should get ready for the change.”
The old man went to the hospital, and not very long after he died. But during the time he was there he followed the doctor’s advice, read the Bible, got acquainted with the Lord Jesus, owned he was a needy sinner, and received Him as his own personal Saviour, and when about to pass from time into eternity, he said, “Tell the doctor that I was ready for the change.”
It matters not whether you are an old person, or Young, you are facing eternity. Are You ready for the change? Not unless you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, like the old man, as your personal Saviour. It is the blood of Jesus Christ, God’s Son, that cleanseth from all sin, and gives us a title to heaven.