A short time ago I was shocked to hear an old man, 82 years old, say: "Oh, I have plenty of time! Some day I'll prepare to meet God!”
Imagine anyone at the age of eighty-two thinking he has time to prepare to meet God! Why, he was already living on borrowed time.
Another man half that age, perhaps forty years old, was lying in bed in a large hospital. The nurse standing watch over him tried to console his loved ones by saying, "While there is life there is hope." How often this has been said by nurses and doctors seeking to comfort loved ones!
Yet, how true it is, in another sense, that "while there is life there is hope"-when one has taken God at His Word and received Him who said: "I am the way, the truth, and the life." John 14:6. One thus has the life—the Life who is our hope. Titus 2:13, 14.
Many there are who, though "walking to and fro in the earth," are dead in trespasses and sins! Theirs indeed is a hopeless existence. Filled though their lives may be with all good things for the present and rich with promise for the future, yet they drift on to a Christless eternity, simply because they think they have much time before them.
Remember, dear reader, to have the hope, you must first receive the Life. That life is in God's Son, our Lord Jesus Christ (1 John 5:11). The hope of the believer is not an uncertain thing, wished or longed for, but the certain expectation of its unfolding before our wondering eyes. We are looking for that blessed hope, because we have believed Him and received Him as our own personal Savior.
Your thought may be, "As long as there is breath in my body, I still have hope of becoming saved and made fit for heavenly glory." God says: "TO-DAY, if ye will hear His voice, harden not your hearts." Heb. 4:7. Again, "NOW is the accepted time; behold NOW is the day of salvation." 2 Cor. 6:2. Elsewhere in Scripture we are told, "The night cometh when no man can work.”
"COME NOW!!" So says Isaiah in chapter 1, verse 18. While it is the day of grace and before the door is shut'—there is still room for you. Believe on Him whom God has sent to be the Savior of all those who will receive Him. Acknowledge yourself as a sinner needing the Savior. Take your rightful place before GOD, and "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt he saved.”
"FLEE FROM THE WRATH
TO COME.”
Matt. 3:7.
"The name of the Lord is a
strong tower: the righteous
runneth into it, and is safe.”
Prov. 18:10.