MANY boys and girls think there is plenty of time to be saved. They are young and want to enjoy life, and when they are grown-up they think there will be plenty of time to trust Christ.
But boys and girls sometimes never live to grow up; they die when they are young. Then too the Lord Jesus is coming quickly; He may come today. When He comes all the Christians will go — men and women, boys and girls. Then the door of salvation will be closed, and unbelievers will be shut outside forever.
The Bible tells us that the Lord Jesus will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and the trump of God. All those Christians who have died will arise out of their graves and along with the living ones will be changed and given bodies of glory, and all caught up together joyfully to meet their Lord and Saviour in the air (1 Thess. 4; Matt. 25).
Happy and joyful for the Christian boy or girl who is ready for this event; sad beyond words for those who are unbelieving.
I remember when a boy I would sometimes wake in the night. All was so dark and quiet, and the fear would steal into my heart that the Lord had come and taken my pants and all the Christians to heaven, and that I was left behind for judgment. Thank God, this had its effect upon me, and made me willing to trust the Lord Jesus as my Saviour, and so to be ready. Are you ready?
ML-06/17/1973