I have recently been reading some old, old copies of this Sunday school paper, “Messages of the Love of God,” printed over fifty years ago. I have found some of the stories very interesting, and I have just been reading one page which contains a long, long list of names. Can you guess what these names are?
If you have been receiving the “Messages of the Love of God” regularly, you will know that once a year a list is printed of the names of those who receive awards for answering the questions in the Sunday school paper. These questions have been going on for all these years, and I have just been reading the names of those who received rewards fifty years ago. Some of these people who were boys and girls at that time, are now grandfathers and grandmothers. And some of them are not here with us anymore. Where do you suppose they have gone? Some of them, whose names I recognize, have gone home to be with the Lord Jesus Christ; but I cannot help but wonder as I read these names, if some of the very boys and girls who answered the questions, and whose names were written down for rewards, have gone into a lost eternity.
We read in the book of Revelation about a book where a great list of names is written. I have never seen this book, but the eye of God has seen it, and I know that my name is written there. This book is called “The Lamb’s Book of Life,” and there is a day coming when that book shall be opened. We read in Revelation 20:1515And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. (Revelation 20:15): “And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.”
I am sure it is much happier for me to write about heaven, and it is much nicer for you to read about heaven, but the same book that tells us about heaven, also tells us about hell. The Lord Jesus Christ, the One who tells us so faithfully about that awful place of darkness, invites you and me to come to Him and accept Him as our Saviour, in order that our names may be written in His book of life. Have you ever come to the Lord Jesus Christ and accepted Him as your Saviour? He said, “Him that cometh to Me I will in no wise cast out.” John 6:3737All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. (John 6:37).
ML 09/16/1956