OUR picture to-day brings a little girl named Norma to my mind. She, with her father, her mother, and little sister, come forty miles every week to hear the Word of God, and to meet with the Lord’s people. When she comes Lord’s day morning in her father’s car there is usually plenty of sunshine, and Norma talks and sings with her parents all through the journey.
In the evening when they go home it is different. There is no sunshine at all; the road is dark, and often slippery in the winter, and Norma is a very tired girl. There are deep ditches, hydro poles, and sharp curves, which might cause an accident, but through the Lord’s mercy they have never failed io reach home in safety.
How does Norma’s father steer safely through all the danger of the highway at night? He is a wise man, and before the car moves an inch, he reaches out his hand and switches on the headlights. Ditches, curves, and poles, may be ahead of him, waiting in absolute darkness, but his car has lights! Every mile of the darkened highway is clear enough when the bright lights shine upon it, so you see Norma travels safely home under the Lord’s watchful care.
Would you like to travel safely home to Heaven? You cannot move a step toward Heaven, you cannot even find the heavenly road, without the light of the holy Word of God. God has written every word of it to light your path to Heaven. Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me.” John 14:66Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. (John 14:6). That’s a very bright light for your path to Heaven isn’t it? Indeed the Bible gives all the light we need for every step of the way, and it shines on our path, making it so clear that it is only when we shut our eyes to His Word that we go astray.
Norma does not worry about the dark curves on their homeward journey. She knows that, when she reaches them, there will be light enough, and her father will be with her. Do not worry, little reader, about the curves and dangers in your life. The Word of God will give you plenty of light when you need it, and God will be with you. Even death itself, if you must die, will be light for you. But if you will not obey the Word of God, the heavenly road will always be in darkness for you, and death itself will be the darkest of all, for you will have to spend eternity in the blackness of darkness forever.
The Lord Jesus—the true Light from God—came down into this world long ago, and through His death on Calvary He has opened up the way to Heaven for all those who will come to Him for light and salvation. Here are His own words,
Messages of the Love of God 7/4//1948