It was midnight. There wasn’t any sound in the house. It was so dark and quiet. Brian lay in his bed wide awake. But what had awakened him? Why was he so wide awake at midnight? Brian knew why. He got out of bed, opened his bedroom door, and tiptoed down the hall. He stopped outside the door to his parents’ bedroom. He listened closely for a few seconds and then quietly returned to his bedroom. Relieved, he knelt down beside his bed for a few minutes and then climbed back into bed and was soon fast asleep.
What made Brian do this? Brian was not a Christian but his parents were. He wanted to be saved but he kept putting it off. He had heard many times at Sunday school and Gospel meeting about the Lord’s coming. He knew that if the Lord came to take everyone who was saved, he would be left behind!
Yes, Brian was checking to see if his parents were in bed. The house had seemed so quiet. He kept thinking, “Has the Lord come? Has the Lord come?” When he listened at his parents’ door and heard their breathing he knew that the Lord hadn’t come yet.
This had happened several times before and Brian had always gone back to sleep. But this time he had done something else. He knelt down beside his bed and accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as his Saviour. The next morning he told the whole story to his parents.
Like Brian, have you been putting off accepting the Lord Jesus as your Saviour? Brian is now saved, and there is a time coming very soon when the Lord will come. It could be today! Then it will be too late for anyone who has been putting it off. Don’t wait any longer! Accept the Lord Jesus Christ as your Saviour right now. “For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.” 1 Thessalonians 4:16,1716For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 17Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. (1 Thessalonians 4:16‑17).
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