You'll Know Where To Find Me!

I shared the following old story a few years back at the funeral of an very elderly saint of God whom I had known and loved in the Lord for some twenty-five years.  It is also included in one of my messages in my book of sermons entitled, "What Jesus Said And Did.'

You'll Know Where To Find Me!

"An elderly pastor lay critically ill. In the opinion of his doctor he could live only a few more days. His wife put through a long-distance call to their son, who was also a pastor and who served a congregation in a small town three hundred miles away. Within a few hours the son was at the father's bedside, and the two men prayed together. Saturday came, and there was no change to the elderly man's condition. Calling his son to his bedside, he spoke in a weak and faltering voice: 'Go back to your congregation, son, and preach tomorrow. If I should slip away while you are gone, you'll know where to find me.”

What a wonderful thing, when a father can speak thus to his children. What a wonderful thing at the sunset of life, to know just where we will be at eternity's dawn - in our Father's house, in the company of our Saviour who has gone ahead to prepare a place for us. And what a wonderful thing for a father who is taking leave of his children to know where he is going; and that they, too, by God's grace, will share a mansion in the Father's house above. You'll know where to find me!' Let those of us who are fathers and mothers ask ourselves; have we arrived at that spiritual certainty which enables us to say: 'I know where I am going'? And have we passed on this knowledge and this faith to our children so that we can say confidently them: "You'll know where to find me!' We can do both if, by God's grace, we root our faith - our own and that of our children - firmly in Him who died for us and who even now is awaiting our arrival in His Father's house above." - Pastor John White