WLLIE was one evening taken by his parents to hear a servant of God preach. He took for his subject on that evening the second coming of Christ, and showed from the Word of God that Jesus is really coming to this earth again to take home to Himself all those who are His, who love and serve Him.
Little Willie sat very still and drank in the words of the good man, but although he felt he would like to be ready when Jesus comes, he did not at that time trust in Jesus, but went to his home still, however, thinking of what he had heard.
Willie slept with his elder sister, and in the morning his sister said, “Willie, why did you touch my face several times in the night?”
“O,” said Willie, “I laid awake a long while in the night and could not get to sleep; then I began to think of Jesus coming again. Just then I noticed how quiet and still the house seemed to be, and I thought perhaps Jesus had come and taken His people away and left me behind. This made me very unhappy, and I felt ready to cry; but I thought, if Jesus has come I’m sure He would take Mary, because she is a Christian, so I just put out my hand to see if you were still there, and then I knew there was hope for me, because Jesus had not come yet.”
I am glad to be able to tell you that Willie was not long in finding Jesus. He put his trust in Him, and then he was no longer afraid of Jesus coming in the night and leaving him behind, because he had learned that Jesus never forgets anyone; and even little boys will be taken to be with Him when He comes, if their sins are washed away, and they are fit to dwell in His presence.
We know also that Jesus died for all boys and girls. He paid the debt for our sins, so if any of my readers are still like Willie, unsaved, and so not ready to meet Jesus, there is hope for you yet, for Jesus will receive all those who come to Him in faith. But if you delay too long, if you leave it till Jesus has come, it will then be too late, for we read in Matthew 25 that it was those who were ready who went in to the marriage and then the door was shut.
Some came afterwards thinking they might yet get in, but alas! they found that it was now too late, the day of hope and mercy for them had passed away forever.
ML 02/11/1917