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One Week Too Late |
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Author: unknown |
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A young woman in Scotland was so troubled one night
about her soul that she couldn't rest. She got up and wrote in her
diary, "One year from now I will attend to the matters of my soul."
She went back to bed but still couldn't sleep. She got up again and
wrote a better promise in her diary, "One month from now I will
attend to the matters of my soul."
Again she went back to bed but no sleep would come, so she got up
again and wrote, "Next week I will attend to the matters of my
soul." Then she went to bed and slept soundly.
The next day she gave herself over to free indulgence in worldly
pleasures. The following day she took violently ill, and on
Wednesday of the next week she died. Delirium lifted from her mind
before she died just long enough for her to say, "I AM A WEEK TOO
LATE! I AM LOST!"
It is dangerous to postpone the salvation of your soul. Thousands
have put off seeking Christ until death overtook them and it was too
late. NOW is the God-given time to be saved. NOW, when you see your
duty and feel your unfitness to die; NOW, while you are in health;
NOW, you ought to yield to Christ and prepare for eternity. Tomorrow
or next week your body may be in the grave and your soul in hell.
Quick as a flash your last opportunity for heaven may be gone.
Do you entertain the thought, as many have done to their eternal
ruin, that all you need is a little time before death to prepare to
meet God, and so you neglect present opportunity and today's mercy
in the pursuit of wealth, honor, or pleasure? The following account
illustrates the extreme folly and danger of such a course.
Mr. Bascom, an Englishman who had passed the prime of life unsaved,
had often felt that he should become a Christian. During revival
meetings of great interest in his native village, in which several
of his neighbors were converted, he was repeatedly urged to give up
his sins, seek the Lord, and be saved. But to every invitation he
always replied, There's time enough yet. All I want is for God to
give me fifteen minutes in which to get ready to die."
He never got that fifteen minutes. "...The expectation of the wicked
shall perish." Prov. 10:28. The Bible also says, "He, that being
often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and
that without remedy." Prov. 29:1. A few months from that time, while
working around the machinery of a mill, his clothing got caught and
he was ushered into eternity without a moment's warning when the
circular saw, in rapid motion, went crashing through his brain.
Do not neglect your soul's salvation another day. Decide NOW that
you will forsake your sins and come to Christ so that you need never
say, "I am one week too late. I am lost."
Remember this: "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only
begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but
have everlasting life." John 3:16. |
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