LITTLE Nellie was a little girl in my class at the Sunday School, a bright, happy child about nine years of age, with such pretty little ways that one could not help loving her.
One Sunday afternoon when I had been telling the children of the love of Jesus in coming right down from His Father in heaven, to die that we might live, and how He lives again and leads to Himself all who put their trust in Him, she suddenly asked me, where is Jesus now?
What would you say if you were asked where Jesus is, where is He now?
If you get your Bibles and turn to Mark 16:1919So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God. (Mark 16:19) you will read, “So then, after the Lord had spoken unto them (His disciples), He was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.”
When I had told little Nellie what you have just read, it pleased her very much, and about three weeks afterwards, she said, “I should so like to be lien Jesus, because He loved me and gave Himself for me.”
There are many little girls like Nellie, we are happy to say, but there are many, too, who cannot say what she said, who are not happy when we speak to them about Jesus, because they know how grieved He is at their naughty ways, they don’t like to think that soon He is coming again, to take all who are His, all who love Him, and know their sins are washed away by His precious blood to be forever with Him, they are afraid they would be left behind.
O, dear boy or girl, if these are your thoughts, do come to Jesus now; He is bidding you come to Himself now, for only those who come now will go with Him then. You may come at once by faith to Him, and know Him as your own precious, loving Saviour, then you will learn to love Him, to wait for Him to come, and be able to say as little Nellie did, “I should so like to be with Jesus, because He loved me and gave Himself for me.”
ML 09/09/1917