WHAT are they looking at—dear, kind Mamma and bright baby boy? Why do they look so happy? Do you not think they are watching for Papa as he comes back at supper time after a long day’s work?
We like to have Papa come home in the evening and take the little ones on his knee. Sometimes he brings us candy or something else we like. Sometimes he plays with us and tells us beautiful Bible stories. He is kind and good to us and we love him. So we look forward with pleasure to his return at the close of the day.
But there is someone else for whom some of us are looking. Do you know who it is? The old as well as the young—all who love Him—are looking for Jesus to come.
Jesus loved us so much that He left His happy home above and came to this poor, wicked world. He came to die for us that our sins might be washed away in His precious blood. And when He loves us so much, He cannot be satisfied to live without us. So He has gone back to heaven to prepare a place for us. And soon He is coming to take us to His heavenly home so that He can have us with Him all the time, for ever and ever.
Papa’s kindness and all the good things he gives us make us love him, and always glad to see him.
Because Jesus has done so much for us and gives us so many good things to enjoy—because He loves us so much—we love Him too, and want Him to come.
Sometimes we are so busy at our work or play that we forget it is time, for Papa to come home.
Just so we may be thinking so much about other things that we forget to watch for our Saviour.
Let us be always watching, “for yet a little while, and He that shall come will come, and will not tarry.” Hebrews, 10:37. We don’t know whether it will be in the morning or in the evening, during the day or in the night, that Jesus will descend into the clouds and catch us up to meet Him in the air.
And we must not think it may be months or years before He comes, for it may be today or tonight. He wants us to be always watching and ready.
ML 02/28/1904