It was midnight. There wasn’t any sound in the house and it was so dark and quiet. Brian lay in his bed wide awake, but what had awakened him? Why was he so wide awake at midnight? Brian knew why.
He got out of bed, opened his bedroom door, and tiptoed down the hall. He stopped outside the door to his parents’ bedroom. He listened closely for a few seconds and then quietly returned to his own room. Relieved, he knelt down beside his bed for a few minutes and then climbed back into bed and was soon fast asleep.
What made Brian do this? Brian was not a Christian, but his parents were. He wanted to be saved from his sins, but he kept putting it off. He had heard many, many times at Sunday school and gospel meetings about the Lord Jesus coming back. He knew that if the Lord Jesus came to take everyone who was saved to heaven, he would be left behind!
Yes, Brian was checking to see if his parents were in bed. The house had seemed so quiet. He kept thinking, “Has the Lord come? Has the Lord come?” When he listened at his parents’ door and heard their breathing, he knew that the Lord Jesus had not come yet.
This had happened several times before, and Brian had always gone right back to sleep. But this time he had done something else. He knelt down beside his bed and accepted the Lord Jesus as his very own Saviour. The next morning he told the whole story to his parents.
Are you like Brian? Have you been putting off accepting the Lord Jesus as your Saviour? Brian is now saved, and there is a time coming very soon when the Lord Jesus will come. It could even be today! Then it will be too late for anyone who has been putting it off. Don’t wait any longer! Accept the Lord Jesus as your Saviour right now.
“For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord” (1 Thessalonians 4:1617).
ML-10/24/2004