SUPPOSE that you were taking a journey to another part of the country, and that you knew that when you reached your destination you would be made very welcome and quite happy, would this knowledge prevent you from enjoying the journey?
“Of course not,” you answer at once, “I should enjoy the journey all the more.”
Then how is it that some boys and girls hesitate to start on the road that leads to everlasting life and heaven? Because they imagine that the journey there through this world will be spoiled. If you know that your sins are forgiven, and that you are sure to have a good time in the next world, that will not make you enjoy the journey through this life the less, surely!
Of course, you will take care to do nothing that would make you ashamed when you reach the end of the journey, but you would not enjoy the journey the less because you knew that a good time was awaiting you at the end. You are fond of thinking out things for yourself, perhaps. Then think out what you have just been reading, and do not give it up till you are sure that you are on the road to heaven.
“These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God: that ye may know that ye have eternal life.” 1 John 5:13.
ML 02/05/1922