WHEN we drive along the highways we see many farmhouses which look clean and white in the sunshine. There are many houses too that are vacant and desolate-looking. The owners have gone and the houses are abandoned — perhaps the porch steps are sagging and the windows are broken.
It was at one of these forlorn looking farmhouses that two brothers, Tom and James, met one day. They had driven from distant cities to meet at the old homestead. Their Christian parents had long since gone to be with the Lord and, as the farmhouse needed many repairs, the two brothers had decided to have the place torn down.
Tom and James walked about the old home and went into each room.
Memories of happy, bygone days flooded their hearts. Tom stood in the doorway of the parlor and said to his brother,
"James, we can't tear down this house — there are too many memories here."
"Yes, Tom, I was just, thinking the same thing," said James. "Just look at that old rocking chair by the fireplace. That is where Father would read to us from the Bible and also where Mother and Father would kneel in prayer."
Although Tom and James had loving Christian parents, they were not saved themselves. Many prayers had gone up to the Lord for the salvation of the two boys. Now that they were back in the old parlor they seemed to hear again the voices of their beloved parents pleading to the Lord for them, and their hearts were touched.
Both Tom and James knelt by the old rocking chair and cried unto the Lord for mercy and told Him how sorry they were because they had neglected Him and His great salvation. When they arose from their knees, their faces were tear-stained, but they were both rejoicing in the knowledge that their sins were forgiven and their names written in the Lamb's Book of Life.
Have you found this wonderful Saviour that Tom and James found that day?
Messages of the Love of God 6/1/1958