What would you do if the Lord Jesus were to come right now?” Mrs. Wilson had just been telling her two children about the Lord’s promised return, and she ended her story with this question, Freddie smiled happily and quickly answered,
“I would throw my arms around. Him.”
Wasn’t that a good answer? Do you think the Lord Jesus is really interested in little eight-year-old boys like Freddie? Of course He is. When He was down here on earth, He took little children up in His arms and blessed them, and He still loves children.
“Though here His voice is no more heard
From heaven itself He speaks this word,
‘Suffer the children to come unto Me.’”
Edith had been listening to her mother’s story too, and she heard her brother Freddie’s answer. There was no smile at all on her face. At last she spoke up and said, “I would run away and hide.”
Some boys and girls are happy at the thought that the Lord Jesus is coming soon, and some wish He wouldn’t come for a long time, and would like to run and hide if they knew He was coming right away.
The difference between Edith and her brother Freddie is just this: Freddie had come to the Lord Jesus and had taken Him as his own personal Saviour, but Edith had never done that. She had heard all the lovely stories about Jesus, and she believed them all too, but she had never taken Jesus as her Saviour, and so she didn’t love Him at all—she was afraid to meet Him!
Dear boy or girl, Jesus is coming. soon! He may come before you have finished reading this paper. What would YOU do? Would you be happy to meet Him or would you try to run and hide? And where do you think you could hide that Jesus can’t see you?
A day is coming when people will cry to the rocks arid to the mountains and call on them to hide them from the wrath of the Lamb, (Rev. 6:15-1715And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; 16And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: 17For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand? (Revelation 6:15‑17).) They will know that they are sinners, and that they have rejected the only Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, and they will be filled with fear when they think of His coming in judgment.
Only those whose sins are washed away in the precious blood of Christ are ready to welcome the Saviour.
ML 04/23/1950