THERE IS something fascinating about a train of cars. What boy doesn’t like to have a toy train, and what girl doesn’t enjoy watching the little locomotive and cars speeding around the track.
Whenever we see a train of cars moving down the track, we take it for granted that there is a powerful locomotive pulling it. Some engines pull more than a hundred loaded cars.
Whenever I see a great powerful locomotive I love to think of the Lord Jesus Christ. There is no limit to His power. He can pull any size load. We are like a railroad car. Faith is like the coupling that attaches us to Christ and to one another. Sometimes the coupling on our trains break and then there is a wreck. But the link that joins the believer to Jesus can never break. It is Himself who has forged that link, and He Himself sustains it all along the road from earth to heaven.
The Lord Jesus is at the head of a great train of believers, and He is taking that train to glory. Each day is like a station, and He picks up new passengers at each station. Are you one of His train, dear reader? Are you attached to Christ? Is the link on? You can know for sure if you wish. Like the train stopping at the station to pick up passengers, so the Lord Jesus will stop for you if you put out your hand, as it were, and cry, “Lord Jesus, save me. I want to be aboard, I want to go to heaven!” But you must hurry and be in time. The train is moving on, and it may never pass within your reach again. If you are left behind, you will be lost forever.
One day, two men boarded a coach at the station yard. They sat down and went off to sleep. They expected to wake up far down the line, possibly at the station where they wanted to get off. One of them woke up and looking at his watch he found that he had slept several hours. He wondered at what station his train was stopping. He raised the car window and asked a workman nearby the name of the station. To his surprise, he was told that he was in the same station where he had gotten on. He left the coach and looking down the track he found to his dismay that the car was not hooked on to anything.
I know some boys and girls, and older folks too, who think they are on their way to heaven, but they have never trusted Jesus as their Saviour. And unless they do they will never, never reach the golden city.
Hasten to Jesus now, dear friend. Trust Him as your Saviour, get aboard! and join the great train of those who follow the Son of God.
ML-01/25/1970