Dear Young Christian:
Where I come from in eastern Ontario in Canada, there is now a chill of autumn in the air. I notice the birds are beginning to gather together on the telephone wires and the tree tops preparing for their migration south to a warmer climate for the winter. A few hardy ones will stay around and brave the cold wind, ice, and snow, but most will go.
It makes me think of our departure from this world where the moral and spiritual storms are worsening, it seems, every day. Our flight out will not be a long, hard migration to a warmer climate, and then a return trip in the spring, but a flight straight up to meet the Lord and be with Him forever in the Father’s House. “Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord” (1 Thessalonians 4:17). What an awesome, one-way migration that will be.
In the meantime, keep on for the Lord, and live for Him now. Like the birds, we will soon be gone.
Your Christian Friend,
Jim Hyland
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