STANDING one day at a country cross-road were two men who wanted to reach a town some miles distant. They were quite aware that one of the roads would lead them to the place, but were quite uncertain which. After a little hesitation the elder of the two pointed to one of the roads and said, “We’ll go this way and risk it,” and they passed on not knowing whether they were going towards the place they desired to reach, or in the opposite direction. They went on in uncertainty, and one can well imagine the great disappointment that they would experience if the road turned out to be the wrong one. Their proper course would have been to make sure which road would be the correct one, so that they could have travelled on knowing that they were going in the right direction.
Dear reader, you too are travelling on to eternity. Have you ever considered where the road you are on will lead you? If not, you will do well to pause now, ere you take another step, and see what the end will be.
There are two ways spoken of in God’s Word, and everyone is travelling in one of these.
The broad way, in which, alas! so many are heedlessly and carelessly going, and which seems so pleasant to the natural man, leads to death— eternal death— “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death” (Prow. 16:25). That is going on without Christ.
If you have not yet believed in the Lord Jesus Christ as your Saviour, you are on the wrong road, and the end thereof is death and perdition. On the other hand, everyone who has trusted the Lord Jesus Christ as his or her own personal Saviour is on the road to glory, and can be as certain of spending their eternity with the Lord Jesus as if they were already there; for the blessed Lord says, “I am the way,” and is saying today, “Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”
Dear reader, the Lord Jesus Christ came from heaven to earth and went to Calvary, where His precious blood was shed that you might through Him reach the glory. Will you believe in Him? Will you trust Him as your Saviour, that you may be found in the right road and safe for eternity?
ML 10/28/1906