A LITTLE child was asked by a friend, “Where are you going?”
“To heaven,” was the reply; and it was given with such a look of joy that it was plain the child wished to go.
“Why do you wish to go there?” inquired the friend.
“Because Jesus Christ is there,” said the little one.
“But what if Jesus Christ should leave heaven?” asked the friend, wanting to find out whether the child merely spoke in this way because he had been taught so, or whether it came from the heart.
“What if Jesus Christ should leave heaven?”
“Then,” replied the little believer, “I will go with Him.”
Now I am sure I need not tell you that this child loved the Lord Jesus Christ. To that little heart, wherever Jesus might be, was heaven; without Him, even heaven itself with all its blessedness and joy, was not heaven to him. Jesus and His presence were to his heart all that makes heaven what it is.
I think this reply very beautiful. It was the fruit of God’s grace in this little child. It was like the answer of Ruth to Naomi: “Whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge.”
It showed that Jesus was all in all to this child, and that, come what might, he would cleave to Him. Nothing short of this is pleasing to God.
Children, and grown-up people too, may speak about having believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, but if they don’t love Him they have not really believed in Him. No one can truly believe in Him without loving Him.
Now, I want to ask you whether you can say from your very heart what this child said? Do you so love the Lord Jesus Christ, that His very presence is your joy and delight? Can you say, “Yes, I love Him, because He first loved me, and gave Himself for me?”
ML-07/14/1935