"I'll be looking out for you, Papa!"

Lynn was just seven when she heard the Gospel and became an earnest believer. Her tender heart received Jesus as her Saviour. She loved her father very dearly, but he was not a believer, and was not concerned about the things of God or the work of the church.

Each evening as the father returned home from work, Lynn would wait for him at the gate. The wooden gate was high and the palings or stakes were close together. In order that the child might see through to tell if her father was approaching, the father removed one of the palings from the gate. Each evening when the father came home from work, Lynn was without fail waiting for him, eagerly looking through the opening in the gate. What joy as father held the child in his arms and showered her with love.

One day, Lynn fell sick and no doctors could heal her. Her father called in the best specialists but her condition only grew worse. Father was heartbroken and did not know what to do. He loved her more than his own life. As for Lynn, when she knew that she was not getting well, she was not afraid. She knew that her Saviour would take her Home to Heaven.

Before she died, Lynn looked at her father and said,"  When I get to Heaven I will ask Jesus to pull off a paling from Heaven's gate so I can look through to see you come. "Father could not control his tears. Lynn's last words were,"  Papa, I will be looking out for you. Promise, you won't be long. "Then she fell asleep, safe in the arms of Jesus.

Father's heart was melted by his child's words. He yielded to the Saviour and became an earnest believer too. God in His great mercy used the death of an only child to save him.

Dear reader, do you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour? Jesus says,

"Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions. If it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And 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... I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father but by me."  (Jn 14:1-3 , 6 )

These words tell of God's great love. The promise is to those who believe. This world is not our home. We are but a-passing through. Will you prepare now for the everlasting home with God? One of the best-loved hymns says:

"There's a land that is fairer than day,
And by faith I can see it afar,
For the Father waits over the way
To prepare us a dwelling place there."  

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