WHAT cheering words these Must have been for the waiting multitudes of Israel — “within three days!” The time had now come for them to enter the long promised land. The weary wanderings of the wilderness were over. There is no longer uncertainty — no longer lying encamped in Moab’s borders, but on — on to victory and possession. How long the time must have seemed to them, as year after year of dreary desert life passed by; but now, how short the time! Before three days shall have run their course, they will pass over Jordan. Can we think otherwise than that their hearts were deeply stirred when they got this word, or that with them all was expectation!
Let me now turn the thoughts of my reader to a land more plenteous than the land of corn and wine to which Israel journeyed — a land whose resources arc illimitable — a land whose joys are full and will flow on forever. Some of my readers are going to that fair land; but alas! I fear that some of you may never reach it. How is it with you, let me ask. Are you one of the expectant ones? Happy for you if it be so. And if so, I would ask, Have you heard those words, “within three days”? Ah, no, this word is not for you; you have something nearer, something sweeter given to you. “Behold, I come quickly” sounds in your ears. It is the voice of Him who so loves you. He who died for your sins is coming quickly to take you to Himself. He does not say three days; If he does not say one day; He says “quickly.” Ah! you may not have to wait one hour, Oh, let that word sound in your heart till He comes — quickly, quickly! And may you be found with girded loins and burning lamp. Quickly, quickly, Jesus come, Take thy waiting people home!
Messages of God’s Love 6/11/1905