"I Want to Come Home"

From: Messages of God's Love: 1935

THESE were the words of a little girl who was in the hospital, when her father went to visit her. As he was saying “Good-bye!” she began to cry and said,

“I want to come home,” so her father said,

“But look, here are biscuits, cherries, strawberries and chocolate, and nurse is very kind, and these good things will last you till I come again.”

She said, “I do not want these, I want you.”

“But what will you do with all these nice things?”

“I will give them to nurse.”

Now, my dear young friends, as I was returning home, I learned this lesson, that we were away from our Father-God. Sin was the fever we were suffering from. Jesus is the great Physician, and if we would only come to Him He would “cleanse us from all sin” in His precious blood.

It is nice to remember that He has given us “every good and perfect gift,” but it is “far better” to look upon Him and see Him “face to face,” and sometimes we realize His love so much that we say, “I want to come home,” and you know that home is heaven; those blessed words, “At home with the Lord;” it will be all joy, all peace, when we see Jesus “as He is.”

My dear friends, are you ready for that time? Can you say—

I hear Thy voice, Lord Jesus,

I plume my wings for flight;

I leave this scene of sadness,

For that of endless light.

It is Thy voice that’s called me,

I’ve longed to come to Thee;

I rise from earth’s short moment

To immortality.

If not, then—

While you have the witness,

Heed the voice within;