“Yet there is room!” To an anxious seeker of salvation, what comfort is in these words! They tell that the door is yet open, that the voice of grace yet sounds, and that whoever comes will be made welcome.
But where is it that “yet there is room”? In the Father’s house, the Saviour’s home, at the “great supper” which God has spread and to which He has invited you, my reader.
God wants you to be His guest. He has spread His table with every bounty love could furnish, much more than our poor needy hearts could desire, and sent out His servants with the word, “Come; for all things are now ready.”
And what is the result of this loving call? All invited have “made excuse.” Man does not want to be God’s guest. God wants man’s company; man does not want God’s company in such close proximity as a feast suggests, so he politely says, “I pray thee have me excused.”
Alas! “a piece of ground,” “five yoke of oxen,” or, strangest of all, “a wife,” sufficed to prevent the acceptance of God’s call. There was no heart for God. Had there been, the one just married would have said, “Where I am wanted, my wife will be welcome too; I will take her with me.”
It is a sad picture, dear unsaved reader, of your heart, is it not? But listen to me. God is in earnest. He will certainly have His house filled. If you will not fill a seat in His house, someone else will. Do not miss your opportunity, I beseech you.
To you I now say again, “YET THERE IS ROOM.” Oh, heed the call of God. Where will you spend eternity? It must be with him whose “guests are in the depths of hell”; or with God, who now again invites you to be His guest in heavenly glory. Again He calls; will you again refuse? Your life is wearing to a close. You began it a stranger to Jesus and His blessed salvation. Will you end it in the same dreadful state? God forbid! “Yet there is room.” Come now to Jesus. All you have to do is cast yourself simply on Him. He has died, and risen again. The work of atonement is accomplished. God’s claims are all met. The question of sin has been forever settled on the cross. There He who knew no sin was made sin for us; and the sins of all who trust in Jesus have been borne away forever. Will you not trust Him?
Had you anything to do, you might delay; but when all is “finished,” and “all ready,” the only thing left for you to do is to come and appropriate in faith what love provides for your present and eternal blessing.
I assure you God is waiting to bless you. Nay, more, He is most anxious about you being His guest. He says, “Compel to come in.” Are not these strange words? They show the reluctance on your side to come, and the earnestness on God’s side to get you to come.
Oh, let me “compel” you to come ere you drop this paper. God loves you; why do you refuse Him? Christ has died for sinners; why do you not believe Him? You are going straight to hell; why do you not turn to the Lord?
God’s house is filling fast,
“Yet there is room!”
Some guest will be the last,
“Yet there is room!”
Yes! soon salvation’s day
To you will pass away,
Then grace no more will say—
“Yet there is room!”
But you must no longer delay. God’s house is nearly full, I am sure. “Some guests will be the last,” has been well said; and then the shut door will solemnly thunder to lazy half-awakened sinners— No room, no room, NO ROOM!
What crushing conviction will then possess the soul that finds itself too late! It will be willing, but too late; wishing, but too late; praying, but too late; pleading, but too late. Oh, how dreadful!
Reader, fancy yourself going down to hell with “yet there is room” resting on your memory, and “too late” ringing in your ears and stamped in living characters of fire before your guilty, godless soul forever. This must be the fate of a gospel-neglecting, Christ-rejecting soul. Shall it be your fate?
With you now lies the opportunity and the responsibility of accepting God’s call.
Once more, “Yet there is room.” Oh, my friend, be persuaded. Yield yourself just now to the Saviour. His words are sweet and true. “Him that cometh to Me I will in no wise cast out.” Again, “He that believeth on Me hath everlasting life.”
May this appeal be used of the Lord to bring you to Him while “yet there is room.”