RECENTLY in a tramcar I gave a man sitting beside me a gospel tract. On the back of it was a hymn, the first verse of which ran as follows: ―
“Time is earnest, passing by,
Death is earnest, drawing nigh,
Sinner, wilt thou trifling be?
Time and death appeal to thee.”
He shortly returned the tract to me, saying, “I am not interested in it.”
“You should be interested in the gospel,” I replied, “for it is the most important thing in the world.”
“I have no use for it,” he answered.
“I am sorry,” I said, “but you will have use for it someday.”
It is just possible that my reader is not interested in the gospel of God. Just think of it.
If there is a change in the stock market you are interested. If prices go up or down you are all attention. If a new dance is announced you want to know all about it. If your favorite team leads the league you are pleased and interested. If your candidate makes a speech you read every word of it.
But here is the one important business of life; that which gives pleasure and joy forever; the only truly winning side on which you can be; the great fight of right against wrong, of light against darkness, of love against hate, and, most solemn, of life against death, and yet you are not interested.
Would that I could arouse your interest, lead every unconverted reader of these lines to realize the awful truth that the indifferent are on their way to hell.
Let me urge you to take a personal interest in the gospel of God until you receive it into your heart, and have trusted the Lord Jesus as your own personal Saviour.
The gospel tells us that Christ died to atone for sin, and was raised again, and that those who trust Him alone may be wholly justified before God from every sin. We read, “By Him all that believe are justified from all things” (Acts 13:3939And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses. (Acts 13:39)). That is the gospel in a nutshell. Will you believe it? Will you not receive Christ as your personal Saviour, and be eternally interested irk these things?
F. L. F.