“What a beautiful voice you have,” said a gentleman to a young lady who had just sung for a group of people. She thanked him for his compliment, but when he continued to speak and asked whether she were a Christian and loved the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, she replied with cold indifference, “I am not a Christian and so I suppose that I do not love the Saviour.”
“Then my dear young friend,” said he, “what will you do with that voice in eternity? Shall it be used in uttering the wailing of the lost forever and ever?”
He said no more, but turned away with a sad heart and left her to her own thoughts. But that solemn question followed her everywhere; it rang in her ears by day and mingled with her dreams in the quiet hours of the night. Nor did it leave her until she found peace in believing in Jesus. Then she was prepared to joyfully sing about the love of God here on earth. And soon she would join the hosts of saved ones in heaven, there to sing the song of the Lamb throughout the ages of eternity.
Reader, what sound will your voice give in eternity? “There shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth” (Matt. 13:4242And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. (Matthew 13:42)) if you neglect or reject God’s salvation. Accept Christ today as your own Saviour, and then in heaven your voice will join in singing that new song of glory and praise.
ML-04/06/1980