A little boy who was so happy after he received Jesus as his Saviour, and knew himself made ready for that glorious heaven where a little brother of his had already gone, often went out at nights and looked up to the stars, wondering what his brother Willie would be doing away up in his home hond them. He said to his mother one night that he thought the stars were “like nail-holes in the floor of heaven, to let little rays of the glory shine out.”
This strange idea of the little boy seemed to take possession of the minds of two little girls as they walked along the road, and several times they stood looking up to the twinkling stars, and saying to each other,
“What a bright place heaven must be, when the light shines out like that through the nail-holes in the floor.”
“I’d like to go there when I die,” said the eldest of the two, “I wish I was ready.”
“Me too,” said her little cousin, “but I’ve done lots of naughty things, ant. teacher says it’s only white ones and pure ones that go there.”
“But he said, ‘The blood of Jesus makes us white, and if we believe on Him, we get all our sins cleansed away,’” said the other girl.
“Then I’ll just believe in Him just now, and get mine cleansed away,” said the younger girl. “Teacher says we have nothing to do, because Jesus did it all, long, long, ago. The hymn says,
“It is finished, yes, indeed,
Finished every jot;
Sinner, this is all you need,
Tell me is it not?”
The two children walked together, talking of these things, and from that night onward they knew and confessed the Lord Jesus as their personal Saviour. There was no deep awakening, no alarm of coming wrath in their case. They heard the blessed Gospel message of God’s love to guilty sinners, and how Jesus died to fit them for His holy, happy heaven above. They simply believed what God said; took it in as the very word of the eternal God; without question they accepted His testimony, and they were saved. Their young hearts were won for Christ and heaven. They were saved, converted; and, reader, there is no other way of it for young or old. Only one way— God’s own choice.
If you, like these two children, will believe God, you will know and rejoice in salvation. But if you trifle with the Gospel message, if vou prefer the sins and follies of this present world to Christ, then remember as you live you must die, and according as your choice on earth has been so will your destiny be in eternity.
ML 01/18/1942