Bessie’s grandmother died, and they told Bessie that she had gone to heaven to be with Jesus. Bessie often thought about this, although she was just a little girl, and she began to wonder if she could find heaven, for she would-like to be there too.
After breakfast one morning she set out to find the door of heaven. She knew the way to the cemetery where they had taken her grandmother’s body, and so to the cemetery she went. And sure enough there were two big doors on the side of a hill. Bessie didn’t know that it was called a vault, and she thought it must be the door to heaven, so she ran happily up and knocked. No answer came. She waited and waited, and knocked till her little hand ached, but still there was no answer.
Sadly she turned homeward, thinking the angels must he too busy to hear her. She went right to her Sunday school teacher and told her all about her visit to the door of heaven, and that she couldn’t get in. Then she was told more about that beautiful place, and the teacher had her learn this verse from memory. Perhaps you could learn it too.
Yes, boys and girls, Jesus is the Way and the Door of heaven, and we must come to Him and take Him as our Saviour if we mean to enter there.
ML 06/18/1950