DO you know what “packing up” means? I think you do. More than likely you have watched, and perhaps helped, while father or Mother packed clothes and other necessary things in a suitcase. Just now, as I am writing this story, my wife is busy “packing up” for a long journey, for we are expecting to start out tomorrow to travel many thousands of miles, and we shall not likely be home again for two or three months. Every once in a while she pauses to think. I know what she is thinking about. She is wondering, “Now what else will we need?”
At last the suitcases will all be filled and ready, the road maps all set, and then we shall kneel down and ask the Lord to take care of us along the busy highways. All this is needed, and even then sometimes we find that we have forgotten something that we wish we had brought along.
But it may be that you are not thinking about a journey at all, and you wonder why I write like this. But you are on a journey just the same, and it is a far more important journey than the one that is before us. You are journeying through this world and on into eternity. It will not mean just a few weeks or even years. You will NEVER return! Where are you going? Oh, how good it is to know that our journey is going to end up in heaven with the Lord Jesus Christ, who loved us and died for us. And what preparation is needed? Just to be washed in the precious blood of Jesus. Isn’t that wonderful? Yes, the Lord Jesus came all the way down from heaven and died on the cross of Calvary in order that you and I might be washed in His blood and made fit for His home up there.
Messages of God’s Love 10/13/1957