WHAT does our picture remind us of, dear children? I do not know what you think of it, but I will tell you what thought came to my mind when I looked at it. No doubt you have noticed that it is a picture of a lot of people coming out of a railway station, just having got off the train and some friends waiting to meet them. You see the father coming down the steps, and his wife and little girl meeting him with glad hearts to see his face again. An old mother at the bottom of the steps meeting her daughter. All seem glad to meet each other again. All this brought to my mind the wonderful and happy meeting that is to take place in the air with those who know the Lord Jesus and Himself. For more than eighteen hundred years the Lord Jesus has been back in heaven, and at any moment He may come in the clouds and call up all the saved people, that have died, out of their graves, and then take up all the living saved people with them to be forever with Himself.
Are you ready to meet the Lord? Will you be in that company? What joy it will be to the hearts of those who have been rejoicing in the love of the Lord Jesus and what He has done for them, to see His face! If you can say, “He died for me,” it will be your joy to think of Him coming again. And just like the people at the railway station, who, it may be, have been waiting and watching a long time, we, who know the Lord, are called upon to be watching for Him and to be saying from our hearts “Even so, come, Lord Jesus.”
How sad it must be for those who are left behind. Many of them will be saying, “Lord, Lord, open to us,” but the word of the Lord to such is, “I know you not.” Ah, dear children, be sure you know Jesus now, and that you can say, “He loved me and gave Himself for me,” then you will be glad to have Him come at any moment.
ML 04/01/1906