I was seated on a train in the commuter station in Chicago. The car I was in was filling fast with businesspeople, anxious to return to their homes after a day of work in the city. It was a regularly scheduled express train which only stopped at certain stations. Just before the train started, a young man sat down beside me. As we 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, and then he seemed to relax.
After about twenty minutes, 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 as the train raced 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 from their sins are hurrying onward and upward to one day being with the Lord Jesus in heaven. Those who are not saved from their sins are hurrying onward and downward to a hopeless, never-ending darkness. If you are a child who is not saved and your parents are, you and your parents are traveling to two different places. Your father and mother are getting nearer and nearer to heaven, while you are getting nearer and nearer to that awful place of never-ending darkness.
If you come to the Lord Jesus Christ now and accept Him as your own Saviour, you will be on your way to heaven instead. Will you come to Him now while you still have time?
ML-02/05/2006