What boy or girl does not like to look at a locomotive! How huge it is, and well able to pull many freight cars or passenger coaches, and bring them speedily from one city to another. Steam, like that which escapes from mother’s kettle when it is boiling, makes the wheels turn around and enables this big “steelhorse” to pull as much as five million pounds. And so when you step into a coach your weight will not make it much harder for the big engine, will it? No indeed, but we must ask God to keep us even on a big strong train, for even trains have wrecks sometimes!
But, we cannot take a train to heaven, can we? There is only One Person who can bring us there. Many of our little readers will say: “Oh, that is Jesus.” Yes, and the wonderful part about it is, that if you have trusted Him as your only Saviour, He will bring you safe home to the Father’s house above. How good it is, when we let His Word settle every doubt and question, for God wants us to have a happy journey, and not to be like the two little girls of whom I wish to tell you.
These two girls were to go from one little town to another and they looked forward to having a grand time. They had their tickets which, they were told, would give them the right to get on the train and go to their destination. After they waited in the station for a little while the train thundered in, and soon the conductor was helping them into a nice coach. In their eagerness to get in they handed him their tickets without knowing they had done it. Soon they were comfortably seated by the window and as the train started moving again they should have enjoyed their ride. But alas, where were their tickets? They looked at each other, they looked on the seat, on the floor, everywhere, but no tickets could be found! Their faces were anything but happy now, and while they rolled past all the nice sights outside, there were two troubled little hearts inside, so they did not enjoy their trip at all. Finally the conductor came along and so they told him their troubles. The kind man smiled and said, “Well, well, I had your tickets all the time, but here you are at your destination”—and the train came to a stop and they got off.
Do you say, “That was too bad?” But isn’t this like some boys and girls, and grownups too, who have told the Lord Jesus that they would take Him as their Saviour, but they still have doubts. Could it be that they have forgotten that Jesus paid all the fare—all that it takes to make a sinner whiter than snow and take him all the way into God’s holy presence in heaven? You need not worry in the least if you have just trusted in the Lord Jesus. To such we would say that it is not a question of your thoughts or feelings, for God sees the sinner who believes safe and secure under the shelter of the precious blood of His dear Son. Why not rejoice and be happy on your journey to heaven knowing that the Lord Jesus has paid for all your sins at Calvary and has promised to take you safely there. In God’s precious Word He says,
ML 04/09/1950