My younger brother and I used to spend two or three weeks in the summer in West Virginia visiting our grandparents. One summer, my Granny Whitely brought us back to Maryland with her on the train. We had luggage and a paper shopping bag of apples that Granny was bringing with her back to Joppa, Maryland. That was in 1960. I was ten and my brother, Phillip, was eight. It was exciting for me, but nerve wracking for Granny Whitely, to be sure. The train car was much bigger than an automobile, and there was room to stand up and walk around. We had to change trains in Washington, D.C. to pick up the B&O train headed for Baltimore. Union Station was huge! I remember watching pigeons flying inside the dome station. We had to hurry to our connecting train and Granny Whitely struggled to keep two boys, luggage, and apples all together. But we made it. When we got to Penn Station in Baltimore, Granny was glad to see my dad, her son, waiting for us. And I was glad the whole day that I had someone with me who knew the way. I would never have made it by myself. Hey, when we leave this life to go to heaven, we have Jesus Christ to take us safely to our eternal home. Paul said in II Corinthians 5:8, “We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.” We will go to sleep in death here on earth and wake up breathing celestial air in heaven. And the first face that we will see in heaven will be that of Jesus Christ. How do I know? Because I know that Jesus loves me! And I don’t have to worry about the trip because Jesus Christ will be with me all the way. Hey, have you trusted Jesus as your Lord and Savior? If you have, Jesus will be your conductor to your eternal home in heaven. If you haven’t, … well, … just trust in Jesus.
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