What a faithful little organ is the human heart! Every day this little engine keeps on pumping. It is pumping during our waking hours, and pumping while we lie helpless in sleep. It doesn’t complain about the weather, seeks no pay, and never asks for a vacation. It will work best when treated well, but will still do its best to give good service when working conditions are unduly taxing its strength.
How dependent we are on the heart! If one eye is blind, we see with the other; if one ear is deaf, we can turn our head and listen with our “good ear”; if one leg is gone, an artificial one can help us along through life. But one’s earthly existence depends, we all know, on the heart.
This most interesting “machine” is about the size of one’s fist and weighs somewhat more than half a pound. It is divided into four chambers and enclosed in a sack called the pericardium. It beats 70 times a minute, 4200 times an hour, 100,800 times a day and 36,792,000 times a year.
While this little organ that keeps our blood constantly circulating can be weakened by disease and abuse, if given a fair chance, it will render excellent service until, weary with the years of ceaseless toil, it finally stops.
This brings us to a very personal but also a very important question. That is—if your heart should stop five minutes from now and your soul should enter eternity, where would you be? Would you be in heaven with the redeemed, or in hell with the lost?
It may be you can say with God-given assurance: “Yes, I know where I shall be in eternity. There came a time in my life when I turned in repentance toward God and received the Lord Jesus Christ as my personal Saviour. Then and there I put my trust in the atoning power of His precious blood that was shed on the cross of Calvary for my sins. In doing so I received the gift of God, which is eternal life. So I know I would be in heaven if the little pump you have been writing about should cease to function.”
On the other hand, it may be you will say, “No, I do not know where I should be in eternity if my heart should stop only three minutes from now, but I should like very much to know.”
God’s Word, the Bible, declares that all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God. All includes you. Because you have sinned, you have come short of the glory of God. (Romans 3:2323For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; (Romans 3:23).)
But—Christ . . . died for all. Therefore, Christ died for you.
The fact that Christ died for all saves no one, unless one receives Him and trusts Him as one’s own Saviour. Read carefully the following verse: He [Jesus] came unto His own, and His own [the Jewish nation] received Him not. But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name. (John 1:11,1211He came unto his own, and his own received him not. 12But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: (John 1:11‑12).)
Will you, right now, ask the Lord Jesus Christ to come into your life, take your sins away by His precious blood, and help you to live for Him? If you will do this, you will be saved. You will be with Christ if, one minute from now, your heart should stop beating.
If thou shalt confess with thy mouth
the Lord Jesus,
and shalt believe in thine heart
that God hath raised Him
from the dead,
thou shalt be saved.