Over in Italy lies the beautiful city of Venice. It is different from any other city, for you may step out your front door, down the veranda steps, and there you are, right at the water’s edge.
Of course you don’t take another step after that. You call for a “gondola,” and glide away upon the quiet waters of the canal to visit your friends or see the town.
It must be strange never to go for a walk, but everybody either goes boating or stays at home. You see, the streets are all water, and nobody walks on water.
Nobody, did I say? The Lord Jesus did when He was here on earth. Peter did too, when his eyes were on the Lord.
There is another street that no man could walk on unless God fitted him for it, and that is the golden street of heaven. But Peter can walk on that street too, because he is saved by the Lord Jesus who is God the Son.
Are you saved too? Have you the right to walk the street of gold in company with the Son of God? Your feet have often walked in sin, as you know, and God says that no sin can enter, heaven. He says that all who die in their sins must go into the flames of hell. But Jesus endured the judgment which we deserved to save us from our sin. He suffered that agony in Calvary’s dark hours that we might he cleansed and fitted for heaven. Are you willing to cry as Peter did, “Lord, save me?” He will hear you and save you at once, as He did Peter. Then through Him who died for you, you will. be able to walk the golden street of heaven, which none but the saved ones can ever tread.
ML 09/24/1950