MOST of our readers have seen a railway switch, and will agree that it is a very important thing. In some towns there are many railway tracks, and it seems that trains can be heard coming and going day and night. Where do they come from, and where do they go?
They come from a great many places and as they hustle along the track, perhaps the conductor comes through calling, “Smiths Falls next stop. This way out.” Then after a brief stop, they are on their way — but where to? That all depends on the switch. One train may switch off to the east and away it goes. The very next train may switch to the west and head for somewhere else. Surely the switch, and the man who operates it, are very important.
Did you ever stop to think, dear young reader, that you are hurrying along a very important journey right now as you read this paper? Perhaps your journey began eight years ago, or ten years ago, and you may have started out from a big city, or a little village. But it is not where we came from but where we are going that is so very important. Each beat of your heart, and each tick of the clock is hurrying you faster and faster along the rails of time toward the end of the journey. Can you tell me where your journey will end? In some towns there are so many tracks one can’t tell where they all lead to, but there are only two tracks that lead through this world into eternity. One leads to heaven, and the other leads to hell.
Perhaps you have a Christian father or mother, or a praying Sunday school teacher, and they have often spoken to you about the need of coming to the Lord Jesus and accepting Him as your own Saviour. This is like the switch on a railway line, for if you do not yet know the Lord Jesus as your Saviour, you are on the wrong track and are hurrying on toward a lost eternity. Would you not like to know that you are on the track that leads to heaven?
The Lord Jesus loves sinful boys and girls and died that the way to heaven might be open wide. But even though He loves you and died for sinners, if you reject Him and go on in your sins, you will be lost forever. The cross of our Lord Jesus Christ divides this world into two classes. Those whose sins are washed in the precious blood of Jesus are on the glory side. They have passed the “switch” and are on the way to heaven. Those who have not yet accepted the Lord Jesus are still rushing headlong down the wrong track, and this little story is written to warn the reader and to beg you to turn to the Lord Jesus now and be sure that He is your Saviour.
“Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
Messages of God’s Love 12/29/1957