HAPPINESS in a home is not the result of having beautiful things around but by knowing the Lord Jesus as our Saviour and Friend. In our picture they all seem to be happy and yet they are in humble circumstances.
Thousands of people are so blinded by the love of money that they see not the surpassing value of their souls.
Such a one was dying, and told his little daughter how ill he was and how terrified he felt because he would have to die.
She could not understand his fear of leaving the world, and said,
“Why, father, you have a beautiful home in the city, and a beautiful home in the mountains, and a beautiful home in the country, and a beautiful home by the sea. Have you not a beautiful Home in heaven, father?”
Alas! he had surrounded himself with homes here, but knew nothing of a Home on high. In his desire to get beautiful homes on earth, he had thought nothing of heaven. Temporal things had hidden eternal things from his view, and now that time was passing, eternity had nothing but sorrow for him.
How is it with you? You may have a happy home here, but sooner or later you will have to leave it, and leave the world altogether. Have you a home for eternity?
ML 12/01/1918