An infidel farmer in Illinois wrote to the editor of a state newspaper as follows: "I have a field of corn which I plowed on Sunday. I planted it also on Sunday. I did all the cultivating it received on Sunday. And on Sunday I hauled it to the barn. Now I find I have more corn to the acre than has been gathered by my neighbors during this month of October."
The editor was not a religious man, and the farmer evidently hoped to win some comment favoring his own infidel views. In this however, he was disappointed. When his letter appeared in print it simply carried the following terse editorial observation: "God does not always settle His accounts in October."
The farmer wished to show as proof, that because his crop prospered, and he was not punished for breaking the Lord's day, there was no God to be concerned over—or, if there were a God, He was evidently totally indifferent to man's conduct. What a terrible mistake!
Men judge God by themselves. The truth is that God is "long suffering and slow to anger"; but He "will by no means clear the guilty." (See Ex. 34:7.)
God chooses His own time to settle His accounts with men; but certain it is that, "whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." Gal. 6:7.
"It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment." Heb. 9:27.
Facts are unalterable; whether a man believes them or not makes no difference; they remain facts. (Read Rom. 3:3, 4.)
Unsaved reader, God is waiting to be gracious. He longs to pluck you from the eternal burning. (Read 2 Peter 3:9, and Ezek. 33:11.)
God has given the Lord Jesus as the perfect sacrifice for your sin. Christ died on Calvary's cross to save you from unending woe.
Through the sacrificial death of Jesus, sin has been so completely "put away" that God can, in divine consistency with His inflexible righteousness and holiness, pardon even the greatest and vilest offender. Hear once more His amazing invitation: "Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool." Isa. 1:18.
Why do you wait, dear sinner?
The harvest is passing away;
The Savior is longing to bless you;
Why not come to Him today?