I want you to listen attentively while I ask you a question. What would you think of me if I saw you in some great danger and did not try at all to save you? You would feel I was very unkind, I am sure. But perhaps you will say, “Ah! but I am not in danger.” Are you quite sure of that, dear children? Think a moment. You all know, that a long while ago there was a terrible flood, when the waters covered all the earth, and no one was saved except Noah and his family. And why were they saved?
“Oh,” you say, “because they went into the ark.” Yes, that is quite true, Well, now, have you never heard that just as that flood came in Noah’s time, so there is judgment coming on this very world in which we live; and just as it was God who had saved Noah in the ark, so now God will save you from the storm if you go to the Lord Jesus for safety?
You know God told Noah to go into the ark, but now He tells you and me to go to His Son, the Lord Jesus. God does not tell us to go into an ark of wood, but He tells us that He loves us so much that He has sent His own dear Son for us, and now if we trust to Him He will save us, and forgive all the naughty things we have ever done. God’s Son, the Lord Jesus, really took our punishment for all those naughty things. Oh, don’t you think He loved us very, very much? Yes, He did; and as you read or listen to this, He knows what you think about this wonderful love. Will you not really come to Him as your own Saviour? He is coming very soon, and after that it will be too late, for the storm will come then, as the flood did long ago, and all who have not come to Christ, the Ark of safety, will be lost.
ML 01/28/1900