I was seated on a train in the commuter station in Chicago. The ear I was in was filling fast with businessmen anxious to return to their homes after a day of work in the city. It was a regularly scheduled express commuter which only stopped at certain places. Just before the train started, a young man sat down beside me. As the train pulled out of the station he turned to me and said, “This train stops at Morton Grove, doesn’t it? I’m visiting here, and I have friends who are to meet me at the Morton Grove station.”
“No, I’m sorry, it doesn’t,” I answered. “You should have asked before you got on. This is an express train. It goes straight through to Glenview without stopping anywhere else.”
He looked worried for a while, but then seemed to relax. I said to him, “Morton Grove is the next town, but I’m sure the train isn’t going to stop.” He got up, walked to the front of the car and waited. As he anxiously looked out the window, the name “Morton Grove” flashed by while the train roared past the station. All he saw was a brief glimpse of the station and platform as we went by.
He was on the wrong train for sure. His friends were waiting for him at Morton Grove. The same train that was taking me to where I wanted to go was each moment taking him farther away from where he wanted to go.
Each one of us is a traveler hurrying on to somewhere. Those who are saved are hurrying onward and upward to be with the Lord Jesus Christ. Those who are not saved are hurrying onward and downward to never-ending darkness. If you are an unsaved child of Christian parents, your house has people going to two different places. Your father and mother are getting nearer and nearer to heaven, while you are getting nearer and nearer to hell.
If you come to the Lord Jesus Christ now and accept Him as your own Saviour, you will also be on your way to heaven.
ML-05/17/1987