THE beautiful month of June has come. We travel quickly. Sixty seconds a minute! Sixty minutes an hour! Some one may say, “Dear me! how quickly time flies.” Here we are already in June, the sixth month of the year 1911. This month has been called “Leafy June,” “The Month of Roses,” and surely we cannot help admiring the beauties of nature on every hand! Do we not see the luxuriance of leaf and flower in great variety? although the curse of sin remains, and we are in the midst of a groaning creation. Can this be denied? But, my dear friend, and unsaved reader, pause a few moments and consider this—that if you will but trust in God, and believe in Jesus, who died for you a sinner, and whose precious blood was shed for sinners, then, this month, yes, this very month of June, shall be to you the beginning of months. It will be a new start altogether; a complete change to you and for you.
From bondage and misery and unrest and the uncertainty of life, to joy and gladness, and liberty and peace, and comfort—right on into eternity. Faith in the precious blood of Christ brings happiness and peace and rest as well as a shelter from the awful judgment to come. By faith we get assurance of salvation, and no condemnation now. We pass from death unto life the moment we believe in Jesus; and this is a cause in itself of deep heartfelt praise and thanksgiving to God.
What are all the transient joys of earth? What are all the so-called pleasures of time and sense, compared to an eternity of bliss? Forever and forever with the Lord! And not only with Him, but like Him, and that forever. “Fullness of joy” and “pleasures for evermore,” and all this made secure and sure the moment you trust in the precious blood of Christ that cleanseth from all sin. Will you miss it? I hope not.
“Free from the law—oh, happy condition!
Jesus hath bled, and there is remission!
Cursed by the law, and bruised by the fall,
Christ hath redeemed us once for all.”
May this month of June be unto every unsaved reader the beginning of months. Why not? God’s time is now.
It was during the month of June last year that the sister of the writer passed away from this world of sorrow to be with Christ, which is far better. Some little time before the end came, and after a very trying night of pain and unrest, in the morning, she being low-spirited and greatly depressed, God gave her a very precious word of comfort from Psalm 16.
It seemed to her like a living voice in her very ear, as she lay there on her bed of suffering, and so weary in her body.
The word given was this:— “In thy presence is fullness of joy; and at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.” This was indeed a great comfort to her soul, and thus she was comforted of God.
Oh, my reader, do you find comfort in God and His word? What else is there to comfort you now, day by day, and in the hour of death. Think now of these words:— “Pleasures for evermore,” and “Fullness of joy.” And all this love and grace and blessing is for all eternity, if you now accept the Saviour—instead of everlasting pain and sorrow and woe, the desert of us all, because of our many sins.
Think of the contrast, dear reader, between a saved soul and a lost soul! “He is comforted” “Thou art tormented.” “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved,” for “the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanseth us from all sin.” Believe and live. Then this month of June shall be to you the beginning of months. God grant it. Amen.