MANY boys and girls think that there is plenty of time to be saved. They are young and want to enjoy life, and when they are grown up they think there will be many opportunities of trusting Christ.
There are two reasons against this idea. First, boys and girls sometimes die, and never live to be grown up. Second, the Lord Jesus is coming quickly, and He may come today. When He comes all the Christians will go—men and women, boys and girls—and then the door of salvation will be closed, and the unbelieving shut out.
The Bible plainly tells us about this great event. The Lord Jesus will descend into the air with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and the trump of God. All the dead Christians will arise out of their graves, and the living Christians will be changed and given bodies of glory, and all caught up joyfully to meet their Lord and Savior in the air. You can read about this in 1 Thessalonians 4, and about the door being shut in Matthew 25.
Are you ready for this event? Happy and joyful for the Christian boy or girl; sad beyond anything for those who are unbelieving. I remember when a lad I would sometimes awake in the middle of the night. All was so dark and quiet and the fear would steal into my heart that the Lord had come, taken my parents and all the Christians to heaven, and that I was left behind for judgment. Thank God, this had its effect upon me, and made me willing to trust the Lord Jesus as my Savior, and thus be ready. Are you ready?
ML-06/27/1920