A FEW months ago, at the request of an aged man, I went to see a little girl who lay at the point of death. Though her suffering was very great, she was perfectly happy, and delighted to look forward to the time when the Lord Jesus would call her to Himself.
“Yes, mother,” she would say, “I shall soon go to Jesus; but you and father must come too; you have only to love the Lord Jesus Christ, and then you will meet me in heaven.”
Shortly before her death the little one raised her hand, and, counting her thin fingers, said, “One, two, three, four, five — in about five minutes I think I shall be with Jesus.”
She lay quite still for a few minutes, and then joyfully exclaimed, “Oh, mother, Jesus has opened the gates of heaven for me, and His angels are beckoning me to come!” And thus, without a sign of fear, the little child entered the presence of the Saviour she loved so well.
Reader, how would it be with you if you had only five minutes to live? Should you, like this little girl, long to be with Jesus, or would you say, “I am not ready to die”? Do not, I beseech you, put off your soul’s salvation any longer, but come to the Saviour just as you are, knowing He is waiting to receive you. “God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” (John 3:1616For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:16).)