The children had all gathered in the living room in their pajamas for a Bible story before they went to bed. The baby climbed up on the couch and pulled aside the window curtain. “Hey look, Mom!” shouted the other five together. “It’s snowing!”
We had recently moved farther south and out of the snowbelt, and the children had been very sad about leaving the snow. But there it was, two or three inches of new, beautiful, white snow sparkling in the moon-light.
“Please, can we go out and play in it?” they begged.
I looked at the six children all cleaned up and ready for bed. But it was now early spring, and we all knew the snow couldn’t last.
“Please, Mommy?”
“Okay, put your snowsuits on over your pajamas and let’s go!”
What a wonderful time we had, rolling snowballs, making snowmen and building forts. We laughed and ran, pitched snowballs and rolled in the snow. Of course, when we went inside the children were soaked to the skin, but even I was glad we’d all gone out to play in what was probably the last snowfall.
Soon, very soon, the Lord is coming for His own. There is not much time left to come to Him and have your sins forgiven. “NOW is the accepted time . . . NOW is the day of salvation” (2 Corinthians 6:22(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succored thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.) (2 Corinthians 6:2)). And you’ll be more than glad, when the Lord Jesus comes, if you’ve trusted Him to wash your sins away in His precious blood and then lived to please Him in appreciation for all He’s done for you.
By the time the children came home from school the next day, there were only a few traces of snow left. That made us extra glad that we hadn’t missed the opportunity to play in it while we had it. But to miss the opportunity of spending eternity in heaven with the Lord Jesus would be the most serious mistake you could ever make! The Bible gives solemn warning that those who die still in their sins face an eternity of judgment. “It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: so Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many” (Hebrews 9:2728).
Use the opportunity you have right now to have your sins washed away. “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved” (Acts 4:1212Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. (Acts 4:12)).
ML-04/13/1997