DEAR reader, try and think how long FOREVER is. Suppose you were able to count all the grains of sand that are on the sea shore, how many millions upon millions there would be. And after that, count all the leaves that are, or ever have been upon every tree in the world. Then count all the drops of water that are in all the oceans and lakes, and rivers that are in the world. And then count all the many millions of stars that are in the firmament above us. And all the millions upon millions of people who have ever lived upon the earth, and all the words that these millions have spoken, and what a total you would have. Then go to all the graveyards in the world, and count the many millions of tomb-stones that tell where the dead have been laid. After that count all the blades of grass and grain that the earth has ever produced. How many millions more this would add to the great total. This would swell the number up to millions of billions upon billions. And for each number, count one billion years. Putting all these years together it would not be as long as FOREVER. After all these years would have rolled away, FOREVER is the same. Ages upon ages of ages may pass away, but FOREVER remains.
And you and I must spend FOREVER somewhere. Consider it, and ask yourself the question, “Where will I spend FOREVER?” It must either be in happiness or in sorrow. With the redeemed, or with the lost. In the light of God’s countenance, or in outer darkness. With Jesus, or the Devil. In Heaven or in Hell.
Then let me ask you to answer this question in the presence of God, and answer it this moment, “Where will you spend FOREVER?”
ML 11/02/1902