A WHILE ago two persons were engaged in conversation on the street and when they parted, the one called out to the other, “Don’t forget.”
What they were talking about I knew not but the two words they spoke at parting reminded me of the way many are forgetting God and neglecting the salvation of their souls. Dear children, there are four things you ought not to forget. Let me remind you of them.
Don’t forget that you must live forever. Your circumstances will change but your soul will never cease to exist. The body may grow old and decay; not so the soul. “I must live forever.” What a solemn thought! “I shall never cease to exist.” What an affecting fact! But where shall I live? What shall I be?
Don’t forget that you are a sinner. Rom. 3:9 says: “There is no difference for all have sinned.” Then you are a sinner. And the wages of sin, which is death, is your proper desert. (Rom. 6:23.)
What a solemn, what an awful fact! Surely you should not forget it.
Don’t forget that you may be saved. There is no need for you to be lost forever. The Lord Jesus came down from the glory that He might save sinners. (1 Timothy 1:15). God so loved a world of lost sinners that He gave Jesus, that who so ever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. (John 3:16.) Will you not, as a poor sinner, just take what God in love offers you, a Saviour?
Don’t forget that tomorrow may be to late for salvation. The Scriptures say, “Boast not thyself of tomorrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.” “Behold, now is the accepted time, behold, now is the day of salvation.” While Jesus is saying “Come”; (Matt. 11:28) will you not say, “Lord Jesus, I come”?
ML 02/01/1903