DAY 302 Read John 14 through 16.
Today's reading: After the group in the upper room had sung a hymn, they went out into the moonlit night. Along the way to Gethsemane, Jesus talked to them about serious and wonderful truths.
Memory gem: "If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also" (John 14:3).
Thought for today:
I remember a little boy I knew, about five years old, whose grandfather loved him greatly. He took the boy with him everywhere he went, and sometimes he would take him on trips up into the Rocky Mountains, where he used to go trapping. When the little fellow's legs would wear out, the grandfather, a strong man, would put him on his back and carry him for miles.
One evening they were in the mountains miles away from home; and, although it was after sunset, the grandfather had to go further up the canyon to look after some traps.
He found a large rock with a hole in it about five feet from the ground, just about the size of the little boy. So he put him in it and said, "Now, don't be afraid; nothing can get you up here. You can go to sleep if you want to; nothing will harm you. And I will come back in an hour and take you home."
The little boy lay there. The night closed in, dark, the wind moaned around that big rock, and the coyotes began to howl. And if there is anything on earth that is mournful, it is that. And the boy had an imagination which had often gotten him into trouble; but his grandfather had said, "I will come back," and on that promise he fell asleep.
Grandfather did come back, and he carried the boy home.
I know how the little boy felt; I know how scared he was, because I was that boy. But Grandfather said he would come back and he had never told me a lie. Neither my grandfather nor my father ever told me anything that was not true, so I believed every word they said. I always found it to be true.
Jesus has told us, "I am coming back." He didn't do it to fool us; He didn't do it to calm us and then leave us alone forever--for eternity. Oh, no, He is coming back. "Even so, come, Lord Jesus!"
Today's reading: After the group in the upper room had sung a hymn, they went out into the moonlit night. Along the way to Gethsemane, Jesus talked to them about serious and wonderful truths.
Memory gem: "If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also" (John 14:3).
Thought for today:
I remember a little boy I knew, about five years old, whose grandfather loved him greatly. He took the boy with him everywhere he went, and sometimes he would take him on trips up into the Rocky Mountains, where he used to go trapping. When the little fellow's legs would wear out, the grandfather, a strong man, would put him on his back and carry him for miles.
One evening they were in the mountains miles away from home; and, although it was after sunset, the grandfather had to go further up the canyon to look after some traps.
He found a large rock with a hole in it about five feet from the ground, just about the size of the little boy. So he put him in it and said, "Now, don't be afraid; nothing can get you up here. You can go to sleep if you want to; nothing will harm you. And I will come back in an hour and take you home."
The little boy lay there. The night closed in, dark, the wind moaned around that big rock, and the coyotes began to howl. And if there is anything on earth that is mournful, it is that. And the boy had an imagination which had often gotten him into trouble; but his grandfather had said, "I will come back," and on that promise he fell asleep.
Grandfather did come back, and he carried the boy home.
I know how the little boy felt; I know how scared he was, because I was that boy. But Grandfather said he would come back and he had never told me a lie. Neither my grandfather nor my father ever told me anything that was not true, so I believed every word they said. I always found it to be true.
Jesus has told us, "I am coming back." He didn't do it to fool us; He didn't do it to calm us and then leave us alone forever--for eternity. Oh, no, He is coming back. "Even so, come, Lord Jesus!"
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