This is a very important day for the three little children in our picture, and you know how you feel when an important day is coming near. They have been invited to a wedding, and for days they have been bubbling with excitement to see what a real wedding looks like.
Mother has done all the rest. She stitched and sewed for many an hour, and even kept count of the days too, for little Sonny never could remember whether it was to be tomorrow or how many days after. At last the time came, and there was a great deal of washing and combing and buttoning and tying, but at last the roses were pinned on each dress, and away they went. Wedding guests must not be late, you know.
The important day was happy and sunshiny, but now the children have been invited to another wedding which is far more important still. It is better than the marriage of a king or a princess, and you are invited too! We are writing this story to tell you about it, so that you will be sure to be ready when the day. arrives.
It is a special invitation from the King of kings and Lord of lords. We cannot tell you the date, but He knows and He will not forget to come for you, if you are ready. Perhaps you are wondering what cleaning up and dressing up must be done for so wonderful an event, but the One who has sent, the invitation will gladly take care of that for you. This is God’s invitation, and He demands clean hearts not just clean faces and hands. He wants to make you clean inside, and to wash away every stain of sin which His eye can see. Then He will clothe you in His own robe of righteousness through Christ’s finished work; yes, and when the time comes, He will give you a new body without a wrinkle or a scar. Now, did you ever hear of so wonderful a wedding invitation in your life before?
“But what must I do, to be sure that He will take me, when He comes to gather His own?” you ask. That question is easy to answer, even for little boys and girls like the ones in our picture. The Lord Jesus has prepared everything for you. It was very, very costly, more than the most expensive wedding on earth, for it cost Him the suffering and death of Calvary. Now He wants you because He loves you, and although you are a sinner all you need to do is to accept Him as your own personal Saviour.
If you do not receive Him what will He do? He will have to shut you out of His happy home forever and send you down into hell. How terrible that would be! Why not accept the Lord Jesus as your Saviour now and be ready when He comes to take His own to Himself?
ML 08/20/1950