AH KOH was a postman in China. One day, as he delivered some letters to a missionary, he remarked mournfully how feeble he was becoming. “Oh well,” he finished, “it will not be long before I am in my heavenly home.”
The missionary looked at him in surprise and exclaimed, “But, Ah Koh, you have not accepted Christ! How can you expect to reach heaven?”
The old Chinaman replied almost confidently: “Surely, after I’ve brought letters to you all these years, one of you will get me in.”
Poor Ah Koh. His answer is sad and almost funny, isn’t it? I am sure the missionary explained to Ah Koh that only the Lord Jesus could get him in to heaven.
But I can remember when I had a strange idea too. I thought that maybe when the Lord Jesus came for all His own people I might be able to grab my mother’s clothes and go up to heaven with her. But I really knew that I needed to accept the Lord Jesus as my own Saviour. I could not get into heaven just because my mother was saved; I needed to be saved. How glad I was when I was sure that the Lord Jesus had died for my sins and that He would accept me in heaven with Himself!
Older people too often think that because they are called Christians or because they are good and religious they will go to heaven. But Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father but by Me.” John 14:66Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. (John 14:6).
ML-12/27/1970