Barry ran up the back steps with his black and white cocker, Peg, at his heels and into his mother’s kitchen. He put his school books on a bench and called out to his mother to tell her he was home. Receiving no reply, he called out again but still his mother’s voice was not heard. This had never happened before, and Barry became worried. He went all through the house and on outside, calling as he went. Mother was nowhere to be found.
Now, Barry’s mother and father knew the Lord Jesus as their Saviour and loved Him. They had often told Barry of the Lord’s love and how that He would, one day soon, come for all who had put their trust in Him and take them home to heaven with Him. But Barry had put off accepting the Lord Jesus as his own personal Saviour, “perhaps, till he was a little older”.
As he searched for his mother, Barry remembered these things and stopped short, with the thought that the Lord might have come that same day, while he was in school, and taken his mother and father and all the believers to heaven, leaving him behind for judgment! Very frightened, he told the Lord Jesus that, if He would give him just one more opportunity, he would take Him as his own Saviour at once.
Well, just then Barry’s mother came home from across the street, where she had suddenly been called to help a neighbor who had become ill. Oh, how glad Barry was to see his mother again—and how relieved! Right then, he kept his promise to the Lord and received Him into his heart. Today, Barry himself is watching and waiting for the Lord Jesus to come in the clouds and take him home to heaven.
Have you, dear reader, received the Lord Jesus Christ as your Saviour? Will He take you with Him when He comes? Or are you waiting until some other time, as Barry did? Oh be ready now, for when the Lord does come there will be no further opportunity for those who are left behind.
ML 08/29/1965