DEAR children, will you listen carefully to this little story, for it is written especially for you?
There was little girl whom I shall call Lily. Perhaps you can imagine yourself present in her cottage home on this particular evening. Lily and her sisters had gone to bed, but they were still talking together. What do you think they were talking about?
Well, Emily was saying to Lily: “Oh, Lily! Suppose the Lord Jesus were to come tonight, as it says in our verse, `The Lord Himself shall descend,’ and that I should be caught up to meet Him in the air. If you should be left behind, what would you do?”
Lily was silent as she pondered these words, and Emily went on to tell her more of what their dear mother had often brought before them, namely, the coming of the Lord. Lily knew that the Lord might come for His people at any moment, for she had often been spoken to about it. She began to feel that she was not ready to go, and that she would be left behind if the Lord Jesus came that night. She grew more and more unhappy, and told herself how glad she would be if she could make herself ready.
Lily had read that there was only one way, and that was to have her sins forgiven and washed away. She had read too that the Lord Jesus wanted little children to come to Him. At last she left off trying to make herself ready, and getting out of bed, she knelt down and told the Lord all about it. She just trusted herself to Him. Her own words were, “I gave myself to the Lord, and I know now that I am ready whenever He comes, for He has washed all my sins away.”
Dear children, it is because I want you to be ready too that I have told you this little story. Please don’t put this paper down and forget it. Ask yourself this question: If the Lord should come tonight, am I ready?
I know many who read this paper can say, “Yes, I am quite ready,” but others would have to say “No.” The Lord Jesus sends you this message He loves you. He waits for you to trust Him. Won’t you do so now? Don’t put it off; tomorrow may be too late!
Messages of God’s Love 10/2/1955