Not very long ago, I was staying in a house next door to two little children. Spanish children they were, and like all others, whether English or Spanish, very fond of play. Pepe and Luisa used to play for hours together with other children in the street.
One morning, as I was coming home from a walk, their mother was standing at the door looking at a group of happy children playing. Presently she espied her own two.
“Pepe! Luisa!” she cried, “Come Dinner is ready!”
Now the game was a very interesting one, and I heard Pepe call out to his mother a long Spanish word which means “We’re too busy.”
Yet they were only playing. But their play seemed to them so important that they did not want to leave it for their dinner. They were too busy!
If I were to speak to you about something far more important than dinner, I wonder if you would pay heed. Or would you be too busy? Too busy with your games, or your lessons, or some, thing else?
The “something” that I should like you to think about is Salvation. You have a soul, and if it is not saved it will be lost forever. And your soul is really yourself. When your body is in the grave, your soul will be somewhere else; and where your soul is, you are.
Do you know how to get your soul saved? The Bible tells us. It speaks about believing, to the saving of the soul. This means that the work of our salvation has been done by the Lord Jesus Christ, so that we may obtain it by believing in Him.
Even grown-up people are sometimes foolish enough to say they are “too busy” to think about these things. They are more foolish than Pepe and Luisa, because it is not a dinner they are missing, but eternal joy.
I hope none of my young readers will ever be too busy to come to the Saviour, and trust Him for Salvation.
ML 02/20/1944