Little four-year-old Linda and her daddy were visiting her aunt and uncle, and they were all sitting in the livingroom having a nice little chat.
Soon Linda lost interest and sitting back in her chair she began looking all around the room at the different pictures hanging on the wall. Every now and again she would interrupt her daddy and, with her tiny finger, Linda would point to a certain picture and ask, “Daddy, who is that?” and her Daddy would tell her.
Then in one corner of the room a small picture of an old, smiling, white-haired lady attracted her special attention. Linda pointed very quickly to that picture and said very excitedly, “Who’s that lady, Daddy?” Her daddy told her it was a picture of her auntie’s mother. “But, Daddy,” Linda pouted, “I never saw her.” “No, of course not, dear,” her daddy said, “that lady has been dead for a long time.”
Tears came into Linda’s eyes as she said, “Daddy, she died before I ever meeted her!”
Yes, it was true this elderly lady had died many years before Linda was born.
And I am sorry to say that I fear Linda’s daddy is not saved and he could not tell her about what is after death.
But God’s Word tells us. If someone you knew and loved dearly had died trusting in the Lord Jesus, and if you believed that “God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life,” John 3:1616For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:16), then you KNOW you will meet that dear departed one again in heaven.
If only Linda and her daddy would believe in the Lord Jesus too, then they would know that they have a home in heaven where they would meet again with all those who are saved.
We know there’s a bright and a glorious home,
Away in the heavens high,
Where all the redeemed shall with Jesus dwell,
But will you be there and I?
If you take the loving Saviour now,
Who for sinners once did die;
When He gathers His own in that bright home,
Then you’ll be there and I.
ML 03/21/1954