SHOULD you die at this moment where would you go? Ponder the question, pause before you answer where. If you were cut down as you read these lines, dare you contemplate what would be your endless state? What keeps you back from God and from heaven, reader? Unbelief!
You do not believe that the future is what God declares it to be. You discredit the joys of heaven and the woes of hell. The rest, the peace, the blessing of being one of God’s people now, loved and cared for by Him, you despise. Yet what is the rushing to and fro, the pleasure seeking, the money-making, but the few days’ flitting of a summer butterfly from flower to flower? Life will be soon over and gone, and its pleasures remembered like a dream. But eternity is unchangeable, and its joys and its woes are endless.
Once again comes to your perishing soul God’s love-message. May the message enter into your inmost heart. God has compassion upon you. He sends to you His good news. Will you not leave the fading flowers of this world’s pleasure and drink in Divine love, and live for ever?
God asks nothing at your hand. He bids you to believe. Believe that He sent His Son into the world to die that sinners might live: believe that His Son was made sin upon the cross that sinners might be made God’s righteousness in Christ; believe that Jesus Himself bare our sins in His own body on the tree.
The Gospel is the power of God unto salvation, and he that believes the Gospel shall be saved.