Not Know!

GOD is everything for those who believe on His name. Reader, is He everything to you? I want to start with that question I want you to think of it. If you can say "yes" to it, then you will understand my story.
Some time ago a poor woman whom I know well, was taught of God that if He was not everything to her she had a very poor prospect. She could not enjoy this life-she was too much afflicted for that.
Unable to do more than just creep about her house, there was no chance of her seeing much of what her neighbors called pleasure, and it was this which at first led her to think the more of what comes after this life. There is an "after death," though some people would be glad to think there was not. Mrs. R. found that of all things in this life, she most needed a Saviour—a Saviour who could save her from the judgment that comes after death.
After she found that she needed a Saviour, it was not long before she knew that " He is nigh to all them that call upon Him," and in the mercy of God she obtained forgiveness of sins and rest of soul in Him. Her neighbors would not believe her when she spoke of being ready to go to be with Christ. One day, when I called to read to her, I found her greatly agitated.
“I'm not afraid to die—no! that I ain't," said she. “I knows my precious Saviour would take me to heaven. I'm a poor, failing creature, often grieving Him, but I do know that. It's nothing that I am—I'm nothing—nothing at all; but God is everything.
They tells me you can't know you are saved and going to glory, and I says to 'em, ' Not know! what did the Lord Jesus Christ die for then? ‘Them as trust Him do know, and they don't because they don't know what it is to go to Him. I knows by myself. I didn't know anything about it once, and in all my trials and troubles I had no loving God that I could go to. I might say, 'please God,' and ' thank God,' but it did not come from my heart then. No, it's faith that does it—that's what 'tis, faith in Christ.”
Now as I heard Mrs. R. say this, I felt that her simple words might perhaps touch a heart somewhere, who would be glad to know that all was settled for eternity for God's people, and that nothing is uncertain —nothing dark. There is enough of uncertainty and darkness here, but as to "after death," all is brightness and certainty.
Some winters ago I was staying at a house which stands at the foot of a hill; on the hill-top are two lamps, and nearly every afternoon at about four o'clock these lamps were lighted. From the windows of our sitting room I used to watch very often for their '''bright light to dart up amongst the trees. One evening as I was looking at them two verses came so forcibly to my mind that ever after that night they seemed so connected that I never saw the lamps lit but these verses came to mind, and they were the greatest comfort and help to me.
I give you the two bright lights, dear reader; they are these—"Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth My word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation.; but is passed from death unto life." (John 5:4.) And “But of Him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption. (1 Cor. 1:30)
All this blessedness is for the one who heareth and believeth.
L. T.