“HOW wonderful!” the little boy exclaims, as the soap bubble rises and floats around with all its beautiful colors. But, alas, how soon it is gone. Just like everything else in this world. Our joys and sorrows are soon over, and even our life at the longest is short, and one might well ask, “What is it all for? What profit is there in being here?” If this life is all, there is no profit in being here; for if we were to get all we wanted while here, we would have to leave it all behind very soon.
Dear children, may you early learn that there is a life beyond this scene, and you must spend that either in Heaven or hell. What, therefore, is of profit while you are in this life is to find the way to Heaven. How simple God has made it all for us, for He sent Jesus, His beloved Son, down into this world to be our Saviour. He said, “I am the way,” and again, “No man cometh unto the Father but by Me.” Notice He does not say, “I am a way,” as if there were other ways. O, no, Jesus is “The way”; there is no other way. You must come to Jesus, take Him as your Saviour, and He will take you safely and surely to Heaven. But to despise “The way,” is to remain away from God, to be lost forever.
What, therefore, is of the utmost gain and profit for us while we are down here in this life is to have Jesus as our Saviour.
ML 12/02/1917