I LOOKED out one morning from my window, and the lawn was covered with happy, quiet looking daisies, which lifted up their faces to the heavens, as if to catch the first beams of the rising sun. They looked very pure and white and innocent, and I could not help noticing how they were all looking up, as if intent on one object. I did not see a single drooping flower among them. They might not be all the same height, or the same size, but they all looked the same way. When I stepped out upon the lawn, and came closer to the daisies, so as to be able to look down upon them, I saw how beautifully round and perfect each flower was, how evenly the petals were arranged.
O, how pretty these little daisies were! My eyes did not grow tired of gazing upon them, and I began to think how pleasant it must be to God, who made these beautiful, white daisies, to look down upon the work of His hands; but with how much greater joy it must be to Him to look down upon those who have put their trust in the Lord Jesus Christ, and have been washed in His own precious blood; and to see those who are looking upwards to Him and loving His smile more than aught else.
Those who love the Lord Jesus are perfect through the comeliness which He has put upon them. What joy, then, it must be to God to see His children steadily looking up to Him, without a cloud between, and all because they “are accepted in the Beloved.” They are perfect in Christ, and it is because God is well pleased with what His Son did on the cross, that those who believe on Him can bask in the sunshine of God’s favor.
Ah! and these daisies, as I said, were constantly looking one way, as if expecting something, like the Thessalonians, whom the apostle Paul tells us about in the New Testament. They were always waiting for God’s Son from heaven. As soon as they were converted, they began to expect the Lord; and the daisies, as soon as they spring up from the ground, begin to look up into the sky. The Thessalonians were occupied with one object, and that was Christ. They believed that the same Jesus who had died for them, and made them “whiter than snow,” was coming quickly to take them to the Father’s house. They knew they were accepted in Christ, and their hearts rejoiced in the hope of being with Him Forever.
O! are you, my dear young reader, looking up like the daisies, watching for the Lord Jesus to descend from heaven with a shout? Are you ready to meet Him in the air? If He should come this moment, would you be ashamed to meet His all-searching eye? Have you anything left to do before He comes? Would you be glad to see Him? God delights to see little children looking up, and waiting for His dear Son. O! if you know what it is to have your sins forgiven, if you know anything of that love which was stronger than death, I think it must be a bright outlook for you to be expecting the Lord Jesus from heaven.
What happiness to be with Him, praising Him through all eternity for what He has done for you! Don’t you long to join in the new song, “Thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by Thy blood,” and to cast yourself at His feet, lost in admiration at His beauty?
But I must tell you something more about the daisies. The next morning when I looked out upon the lawn, the daisies were all gone. The grass looked fresh and green, and the sun shone brightly as ever, but the little daisies were gone! Someone had been there early in the morning, and taken them all away.
And so, the Lord Jesus will come someday, and take all His waiting children home. Ah! I think I hear you say, “I should not like to be left behind. I should not like to wake up some morning, and find all the Christians gone to glory.”
Well, the Lord Jesus says to you, “I love them that love Me, and those that seek Me early, shall find Me.” If you do not yet know Jesus as your Savior, if you cannot yet look forward with joy to seeing Him, and being like Him, O, accept now His free salvation. Take God at His word, and “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.” If you want to be made white and pure, like the daisies, your sins must be washed away by the blood of Christ. Then you shall be “whiter than snow,” for “The blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleanseth us from all sin.”
There is no time to lose, for the Lord Jesus says, “Behold, I come quickly.”
He may come while you are reading this, and if you are not ready to meet Him, the door will be shut against you, and you will go away into everlasting punishment, prepared for the devil and his angels. Don’t forget the last words, the Lord Jesus sent to you, “Surely I come quickly,” and do not rest till you can say, “Even so, come, Lord Jesus!”
“The Savior, Jesus, is gone to prepare
Such a beautiful home in the sky,
And He says He will come
And lead to that home
Every sinner that’s born from on high.”
ML-05/23/1920