A Christian doctor was called in to see a young man who was ill. He made a very careful examination of his patient and found that he was in a most serious condition. It was his painful duty to tell him that his days were numbered and that, indeed, he had only a few hours to live. This brought from the young man the woeful exclamation:
"Then I've missed it, doctor. Yes, I've missed it at last.”
"Missed what?”
"I've missed the salvation of my soul. I was awakened some years ago, but put it off, thinking I had plenty of time. But I've been a fool, and sold my soul for a straw. Yes, O yes, I've missed it at last.”
O! the folly of procrastination. O! the madness of delay. To risk an immortal soul on the possibility of getting salvation when the heart has become harder and opportunity after opportunity has been frittered away.
"Behold, ye despisers, and wonder and perish," is the solemn word to those who slight the Savior's grace when it is offered. It is not "Behold, ye despisers, and procrastinate and be saved at last.”
The young man died without expressing any hope. We have to leave his case there. But the Lord has said, "If ye die in your sins, whither I go ye cannot come.”
Are you dying in your sins? Flee now to Christ lest you "miss it at last.”