A terrible wreck had just occurred. From it a woman was rushed to the hospital, unconscious. She was desperately injured, but as she regained consciousness her first questions were: "Can I live? Shall I get better?”
The surgeon reluctantly answered: "No, it is impossible.”
The accident victim heard his reply calmly, and though her life was fast ebbing away, she exclaimed: "Thank God this did not happen yesterday!”
Why? The evening before, in the city where the girl lived, a gospel mission had been in progress. A Christian woman saw the girl pause hesitantly near 'the door. Going to her, she invited her in. At first the girl timidly refused; but after a little urging, she agreed to come in. But she said, "I have no Bible.”
At once the Christian worker answered: "I will lend you mine." She gave it into her 'hands, and accompanied her inside.
The word of the Gospel convicted the young woman of sin; but before she had left 'the' hall she had found peace in believing in the Lord Jesus Christ. Cleansed by the Savior's precious blood, saved by His grace, her face reflected newly acquired inward peace and joy.
As the young girl was about to leave, she handed back the Bible but her new friend said: "No, you must keep it! Here, let me write something in it." On the fly-leaf she wrote her own name and then marked several Scriptures before she gave it back.
This Christian woman was in the habit of visiting the hospital, and happened to call on the day of the wreck. One of the nurses informed her that a Bible of hers had been found in one of the beds. To her astonishment she discovered that it was the Bible that she had given to the young woman converted the day before.
When the whole tragic story was told to this Christian worker, conflicting thoughts flooded through her mind. That meeting, and its blessed outcome-a lost one found, a sinner saved! Yet within a day the spirit gone to be with Christ! With joy and sorrow mingled, she exclaimed in the almost identical words of the young victim of the wreck: "Thank God this did not happen before yesterday!”
The same loving gospel call goes out to you who may read this. The Savior still says: "Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." Matt. 11:2828Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. (Matthew 11:28).
How uncertain is everything under the sun! How transient is life! Who knows what the morrow may hold for you? Today, here. Tomorrow, where? Why not come to Jesus now?