"We Never Can Tell"

WALKING up the Barnfield Road, I saw a very pretty young lady looking up with beaming eyes into the face of a young officer as she said, “Do tell me, when have you to go?” “We never can tell,” he answered; “all we have to do is to be ready!” In a moment flashed into my mind, “Be ye also ready, for in such an hour as ye think not, the Son of Man cometh” (Matt. 24:4444Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh. (Matthew 24:44)). Yes, just as our soldiers have to hold themselves ready, so we who are the soldiers of Christ our King; we are told to be ready, waiting for the summons. Reader, are you ready? Have you found that God, the great God in your Friend, who has sent His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, as your Saviour, and to give you His Holy Spirit to make you ready. I was reading of a man in India who did not know the way, so seeing a fakir sitting by the wayside he asked him to tell him the way to Barisal. The devotee did not answer, but when the man asked again, he replied, “Can you tell me the way to God?” Yes, this is the important question for all of us-soldiers, sailors, civilians-all. “Do we know the way to God?” Are we ready, for we know not when the summons will come? “Be ye therefore ready.”
Emily P. Leakey