This odd little house is a pretty good home, isn’t it? Father has made a straw roof and woven walls like a basket to keep out the rain and wind, and his little home stands on long legs to keep out the dampness in the rainy season. Mother has added a pair of curtains to the little unglassed window, and now it is ready for her family of seven children.
Some of our “Messages of Love” readers lie down to sleep in homes very much like that. Some of you have nice big houses with a furnace in the basement. But, big house or little house, you must leave it someday and never come back. Have you got another house, a “house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens?”
There’s a home for little children,
Above the bright blue sky;
Where Jesus reigns in glory,
A home of peace and joy.
No home on earth is like it,
Or can with it compare;
For everyone is happy,
Nor could be happier there.
There are tears even in kings palaces on earth, but everyone is perfectly happy in heaven. Do you know why? Because the blessed Lord Jesus is there. He died once, to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself; and now there is no sin in Heaven, and no sorrow.
Of course sin, even one sin, would spoil heaven right away, but only those children whose sins are put away through the death of the blessed Saviour are allowed to live in that happy home above.
Is there a place for you in that home above the bright blue sky? Jesus, who died for sinners, is waiting to forgive and cleanse you; so that you can say,
ML 03/18/1951