Bear Vent

All God's children desire to be with their Father, and their Father desires to have all His children with Him. Sin, like a cruel tyrant, has scattered His family abroad. Death divides them from each other, and even divides their souls from their bodies. But Christ's death on the cross has taken away the guilt of sin, and has destroyed the power of death. At the sound of the last trumpet, the bodies that lay rotting in the graves, or forgotten in the depths of the sea, shall be glorified and united to the happy spirits of the righteous ones. Those who were born in different ages of the world, or who were separated by wide oceans, shall see each other for the first time in their Father's everlasting home.

Are you living your life today in a way you would wish you had lived, if tomorrow you were to find yourself dying? Is there any sin you are practicing, which you should immediately forsake if you knew this day was your last? Where is the man who can sincerely say that this day may not be his last? With some people this day is the last day; with many more this week is the last week; with thousands this is the last month; with millions the last year. Are you prepared to meet the Lord? If not, why don't you prepare immediately? There is a fountain opened to cleanse all sin, in which everyone may immediately wash. Yet how many have never washed in it! If Christ were to come now, He would find them still in their sins. Do not say, “He will not come yet.” Remember, it is very dangerous to even think, “My master won't be back for a while.” (See Luke 12:45-46 .)