Chats with children : $b or, Pearls for young people strung from the word of truth — John Shaqi
Chats with children : $b or, Pearls for young people strung from the word of truthLe Feuvre, Amy
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Chats with children : $b or, Pearls for young people strung from the word of truth
Le Feuvre, Amy
Christian life -- Juvenile literature
Would you like to walk along it? I think a great many would. Some might
say:
"I've been trying to get there all my life, but it's so difficult to
find the way to it. And now here it is at last."
Perhaps you would say:
"I should like to feel I was on the way there, but I don't want to
arrive there just yet. I mean to get there at last."
I don't think there is a single boy or girl in the world who would not
like to feel certain that when they died, they would go to Heaven.
But if we want to get there when we die, we must start going along the
road to it while we are alive.
Let us talk a little bit about Heaven.
Little children like it, because it sounds like a happy fairyland to
them. Nobody to hurt them or quarrel with them, no darkness, lovely
music, white robes, rivers and fruit trees, paths of gold. Nothing
to be afraid of, no sickness, no pain, every one full of joy and
happiness, lots of little angel children to play with. Who would not
like to be there?
When you grow older you will still like to think of such a beautiful
Heaven, but you will want to go there to meet your old friends, your
parents, your brothers and sisters who have gone before you, and above
all, you will want to meet your Saviour whom you have learnt to love.
Do you know the road to Heaven?
So many start out for it, and lose their way.
And I will tell you a secret.
Boys and girls are much nearer the Road when they are small, than when
they get bigger.
It is easier to find when you are young, than when you grow up.
Do you remember a little verse in the Bible which says:
"I love them that love Me, and those that seek Me early shall find Me."
What has this to do with the road to Heaven?
I will tell you in a few minutes.
Just before the Lord Jesus died He told His disciples He was going away
from them to prepare a Place for them in God's House which is Heaven.
He said: "You know where I am going, and you know the Way."
Thomas, one of the disciples, said in a puzzled sort of way:
"But we don't know where You are going, and how can we know the Way?"
Then Jesus said:
"I am the Way...no man cometh unto the Father but by Me."
He had told them this over and over again, but they did not seem to
understand.
Just like us. So few people understand it.
Jesus had told them once before:
"I am the Door. By Me if any man enter in, he shall be saved."
So if the Lord Jesus is the Door into Heaven, and if He is the Way to
Heaven, we have got to find Him, and He will take us safely into His
Father's House.
How can we find Him?
I met a tiny boy once trotting along a busy street. He had no hat on,
and was only about three years old. Suddenly a big dog sprang playfully
on him. He screamed in terror and fled. I took him up in my arms, and
he put his little arms round my neck and clung tightly to me.
"Take me home! Take me home!" he cried.
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