"My friend, can you tell me what is the best thing in this world?”
So spake a servant of Christ, as he placed his hand lovingly on the shoulder of a young man. The man turned around; and looking into the face of the Christian, said: "Yes, sir, I can. Though I never learned to read, yet God has taught me by His Spirit. I know what is the best thing in this world." Then slowly and feelingly, the man's answer came. "The best thing in this world, sir, is to be ready for the next.”
Reader, is there a better thing than that? Are you ready?—ready for glory and eternal blessedness with Christ in heaven? Thank God, there is such a thing as being ready, and such a thing as knowing it, too.
But are you ready? If not, do you want to be ready? Do you long to be ready now? Then turn to God. Repent now. Believe in Jesus now. Have faith in His blood now. Now "confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus," and say, "O Savior of the guilty, I do believe Thou didst die for me, even for me," and thou shalt be saved—now.