SA 1:18{EB 3:7{XO 8:10{"Come now!" Nothing can be plainer. Therefore, if you postpone coming, you are calmly disobeying God. When we bid a child to "come," we do not count it obedience unless he comes at once, then and there. It is not obedience if he stops to consider, and coolly tells you he is really thinking about coming, and waits to see how long you will choose to go on calling him. What right have we to treat our holy Lord as we would not think of letting a naughty child treat us? He says, "Come now." And "now" does not mean tomorrow. "Today if ye will hear His voice, harden not your hearts." Put it to yourself, what if this night God should require your soul of you, and you had not "come"? What if the summons find you still far off, when the precious blood was ready, by which you might have been brought nigh?
Precious, precious blood of Jesus,
Shed on Calvary;
Shed for rebels, shed for sinners,
Shed for me.
Precious blood, whose full atonement
Makes us nigh to God!
Precious blood, our song of glory,
Praise and laud.