WELL, my friend, if it were raining showers of gold coins, what would you do; would you go on with your work, or pick up the gold?” said an evangelist to a man by the roadside, who was busily gathering rubbish into a tin pail.
“O! I should stop and pick up the gold first,” he replied.
“To be sure you would. Now it has been raining gold this past eighteen hundred years; do you know what I mean?” The old man looked up wonderingly.
“I mean, all the unsearchable riches of Christ have been showering down upon poor sinners all this time. Have you received them?”
“I’m afraid not.”
“It is high time that you should.” “Yes, I know that.”
“There now; and yet you are busily engaged, but forgetting the gold showers!”
“But it’s right to do this,” said he with apparently the greatest indifference.
“Surely; but you know people generally look out for the main, chance, and it’s all chance in man’s world. But here is the main certainty, and you had better look out for this. Make sure. If gold was falling, you would fill your pockets at once. Now, take your place as a guilty and lost sinner before God, believe on His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, and you shall receive the remission of your sins, and the gold showers, so to speak, will fill your heart.”
Dear children, do not be without these showers of gold for another day! Turn to the Lord Jesus, accept Him as your Saviour, and with Him you shall receive endless showers of divine blessing for eternity.
Those who have accepted Christ are happy and able to say, with thanksgiving,
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ.” Eph. 1:3.
ML 05/14/1922