A DEAR woman said to me only today, “I used to think for long that I was all right. I thought that if I prayed, and led a good life, that that would be enough. One evening I was looking up at the sky, and admiring the beauty of the stars, when suddenly a voice seemed to say to me, ‘Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved’ (Acts 16:3131And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. (Acts 16:31)). A strange solemnity came over me. In a flash I saw that I had never been saved, and there and then I believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, and was saved.”
What a mercy that a mistake of such magnitude, and fraught with such eternal consequences, was rectified in time. Alas! alas! in this twentieth century, in this land of churches, in this country of Bibles and tracts, there are untold thousands making this very mistake. Are you one such, dear reader? Awake, awake, in time. Tomorrow may be too late. How insistent are the words of Scripture, “Behold, NOW is the accepted time; behold, NOW is the day of salvation” (2 Cor. 6:22(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succored thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.) (2 Corinthians 6:2)).
Make no mistake on this important subject, for, once you find yourself out of time and in eternity, you will discover it is beyond the possibility of rectification. We live in a fearfully indifferent age. Millions are lulled to sleep by the deadly opiates of the devil.
Awake I awake, I beseech you, ere it be too late.
A. J. P.