It is very strange, but yet very true that whenever we speak to big people or little people about the salvation of their souls they never seem to think that, that great and important matter can be settled there and then. Even when they really wish to be saved they usually think just this same thing.
Perhaps one reason is that it is so great and important a matter that they suppose they must at least make themselves a little better before they could expect it to be done in their case. Another reason may be that little people like you may think you are too young and too little.
Now I wish to show you that all this reasoning is wrong. Look what our text says— ‘NOW’ is the day of salvation.”
Suppose a kind friend took you into a store full of toys; suppose he selected a beautiful model of a steam-engine (or, if you are a little girl, a beautiful doll). You saw him pay the full price, and then he turned and said,
“I have bought this engine (or doll) for you, just take it home with you now.” Do you think you would say,
“O, sir, it is very expensive! I must wait till I have done something to deserve it”?
I do not think you would: would you? Well God’s salvation has been paid for by the Lord Jesus, His precious blood was the price, and He tells you, you may have it now. Why grieve Him by refusing to take it?
Then you are not too young to die, are you? O, no! Many little graves are in the churchyard. Then you are not too young to be saved by the Lord Jesus.
Besides, you remember how He took the little children up in His arms and blessed them and how He called them His lambs. Then you may certainly come to “Hm, now, and be saved by Him.
Then you should not delay coming, for Jesus may come at any hour, and if He comes and finds you as you are, you will not be among those He calls “His own;” and you will not rise to meet Him and go in with Him to Heaven’s bright glory, but be left outside its shut door. O, how sad that would be! wouldn’t it?
Or you may indeed die, and if not ready, unsaved—I dare not think how awful it would be for you.
1.You may come now, for salvation is paid for and free.
2.You should come now, because the Lord is coming.
3.You should come now, because death may come; and
4. Because you cannot too soon love and serve such a blessed Saviour and Master.
ML 12/17/1939