Come Home
A mother and son once lived in a miserable attic.
Years before, she had married against her parents’ wishes and had gone with her husband to live in a strange land.
But her husband soon died, and she managed with great difficulty to secure the bare necessities.
The boy’s happiest times were when his mother told of her father’s house in the old country, a place with grassy lawns, enormous trees, wide porches, and delicious meals.
The child longed to live there.
One day the postman knocked at the door with a letter.
The woman recognized her father’s handwriting and with trembling fingers opened the envelope that held a check and a slip of paper with two words:
“Come home.”
A similar experience will come to all who know Christ.
Someday you will receive this brief message:
“The Father says come home.”
Those who know Christ are not afraid to die.
Death is not the grim reaper.
Death to the Christian is “going home.”
No one who has died in the Lord would ever want to come back to this life.
To depart and be with Christ, Paul said, “is far better” Philippians 1:23.
The Bible says that we are strangers and pilgrims on earth, seeking a homeland, a place prepared for us by God (Hebrews 11:16) where the Lord will receive us into “an everlasting home” Luke 16:9.
I have never known a man or woman to receive Christ and ever regret it.
Perhaps you have never bent your will to God’s will and been born again.
You can do that now, for He desires that all be saved. 1Timothy 2:4.
Right now you can make your decision for Christ and start on the road that leads to a heavenly home.
Jesus said in essence, “You can be where I am, or you can be where I am not.”
I pray you settle life’s most important question: Where will you spend eternity?
My witness is true, for I know where I came from and where I am going. John 8:14.
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