Part 2.
We were talking last week about the wonderful body God has given to each little child, but that is not all He has given you. The dog and the pussy cat have bodies, and they can run about faster than you can, and they can see and hear and feel, too. Now, what is the difference between you and the pretty purring pussy? Well, first of all God has made you able to understand about Himself. If I were to talk to the dog, or the cat about heaven or the Bible, would they understand? Why no! they would hear the sound of my voice, but it would have no meaning to them. Now, you can understand, for God has given you a soul, a never dying soul. A long, long time ago, God made the first man, and when He had made him, “He breathed into his nostrils, the breath of life, and man became a living soul.” Ts that hard to understand? It means that God put into the man, a spirit, a something which can never die, the body may die, but the soul, or spirit, will not die. You cannot see it, or feel it with your hands, but it is there just the same, and when the body dies, the soul still goes on living. Does it go into the grave, oh no! it leaves the body, and goes away, away. But where does it go? That is the most important thing. You have often heard of the two places; to one of which it must go. One is heaven, a beautiful home, where God is, and the Lord Jesus Christ. It is full of joy and love and praises of God. No one is ever sick or in pain there; no one is ever hungry or thirsty or tired; and no one is ever naughty.
The other place is oh! so different; it is always dark, and full of pain and suffering and sorrow and instead of the Lord Jesus, the devil is there. But God loves little children and grown up people, too well, to wish them to go to such a place. He wants to have them in heaven with Himself, and for this reason He sent His only Son into the world to become a man and to be punished for the naughty things men and women and children have done, and if you believe that the Lord Jesus has been punished for your sins, God will not punish you too, but will take you to ire with Himself in His happy home. God commendeth His love toward us in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Messages of God’s Love 1/19/1908