He hasn’t tum yet.”
The words came from a little fair-haired girl of six years. It was an eager little face, with the blue eyes surrounded by golden curls, and the eyes looked very bright just then, for the voice had something of doubt in it, as the words were uttered. Bright little soul! always singing. About a week before, she had heard for the first time of the Lord’s coming.
So new, so beautiful, so strange, it seemed to her, that often during the day she would stop in some play, or meal, to ask, “Tould He (come) tum now?” But this evening evidently doubts had entered into the ardent little spirit.
“No, He has not come yet,” was the answer, “but He will come. He does not tell us when He is coming, He only tells us to watch for Him, because He may come at any time.”
“Seems He’s telling me to watch all the time,” returned the little one earnestly.
“Not come yet,” and the child was disappointed— “Not come yet,” and she had watched for Him for a whole week— “Not come yet,” although she was full of joy at the prospect of telling Willie, her only brother, that He was coming.
“Not come yet,” dear reader, and it is more than nineteen hundred years since the promise was given—but “He that shall come, will come, and will not tarry.” He will not tarry for the unbelief of the world, or the sleeping ears of His own, or the power of Satan spread abroad.
“In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye we shall be changed.”
“We,” those who know Him and love Him—those born of the Holy Spirit, redeemed by His blood, made members of His body, and united to Him in the glory, that “same Jesus” who went up in the clouds in the act of blessing His disciples, “shall so come in like manner.” They did not doubt the angel’s word, so returned to Jerusalem with great joy, worshiping and praising.
“For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: “Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we ever be with the Lord.” 1 Thessalonians. 4:16, 17.
He has not come yet, and if you do not know Him, He is calling while your eye is on this page, longing to save you before He comes in judgment on those who have rejected Him. Will you not accept Him and His finished work now, and rejoice in the hope of the glory which shall be revealed?
ML 06/14/1931