While driving in town, I was stopped at a red light. In front of me was a little, battered-up Volkswagon. On its bumper was a sticker that said, “When I grow up I want to be a Cadillac.” I thought to myself, Little Volkswagon, you and I both want something. Mine will happen, and yours won’t.
I want to “go up,” not “grow up”! The Lord Jesus died for me so that I could be saved from my sins. He died for sinners, but only those are saved who admit that they have sinned and accept the Lord Jesus as their very own Saviour. It is because I have believed the good news of salvation that I am saved. Because my sins are gone, I know for sure that I will “go up.”
A battered-up, little car cannot change what it is, because it does not have life. It can never grow up or be anything else other than a Volkswagon. But for people who are saved, the Lord Jesus said, “I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto Myself; that where I am, there ye may be also” (John 14:2-3).
Because Jesus died on the cross, rose from the dead and went to heaven, what I want will soon happen—I will go up to be with Him. Accept Him into your heart so that you may go up when He comes to call His own out of this evil world to be with Him in heaven.
ML-10/28/2012