October 18: The Alarming Alternative

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SA 22:23{EN 7:1{No need to repeat the story! We knew it all at six years old. Today the words are sent to you, "Come thou!" We are either inside or outside the Ark. There is no half-way in this. Outside is death, inside is life. Outside is certain, inevitable, utter destruction. Inside is certain and complete safety. Where are you at this moment? Perhaps you dare not say confidently and happily, "I am inside"; and yet you do not like to look the alarming alternative in the face, and say, "I am outside!" And you prefer trying to persuade yourself that you do not exactly know, and can't be expected to answer such a question. And you say, perhaps with a shade of annoyance, "How am I to know?" God's infallible Word tells you very plainly, "If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”
Ye who hear the blessed call of the Spirit and the Bride,
Hear the Master's word to all, your commission and your guide—”
And let him that heareth say, Come," to all yet far away.
“Come!" to those who, while they hear, linger, hardly knowing why;
Tell them that the Lord is near, tell them Jesus passes by.
Call them now; oh, do not wait, lest tomorrow be too late!