OR what am I to prepare?
“To meet thy God.”
But is the need urgent? Why be in such a hurry?
Because "he that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy." (Prov. 29:1.) It is not enough that your life is a consistent one and that you do your best. You may make good resolutions by the score, you may sign the pledge and so forth, but these things are no guarantees that you will reach the right place at last. They are all very well, as far as they go, but it is as true to, day as ever it was, that salvation is "not of works, lest any man should boast." (Eph. 2:9.)
Maybe you will say: "I should like to be converted, but not just now." I doubt the sincerity of one who talks like that. Could you but see yourself as God sees you, you would be in a ferment of eager desire to get the matter settled at once. Your heart-burdened cry would be: "What must I do to be saved?”
Procrastination is one of the readiest means of filling hell. See that it does not take you there.
You need not be forever lost. Holy and just, yet infinitely gracious is the God of the Bible. His heart is full of compassion, and in order that you and I might be saved He gave His Son.
Do you still halt between two opinions? The world, with its costly delusions, stands on the one side. On the other stands the Savior, with arms of love outstretched to you. Let one urge you to delay no longer. You cannot afford to trifle. Death is too busy. With your sins and your fears, come to Jesus. He is mighty and willing to save.
“Before I can become a Christian I must mend my ways and lead a better life." So say some, but it is a delusion of Satan.
“If you tarry till you're better,
You will never come at all.”
The years of your life have been full of sin. You are leaving them behind, and time is carrying you on. Months fly past; weeks come and go; days are disappearing with alarming swiftness. Yet still you tarry. You choose the world and its gaieties rather than Christ and salvation.
Beware! Are you going to fling your soul away for a few paltry morsels of unsatisfying pleasure? The Holy Spirit is here to strive with you. By this printed page warning is once more brought to you, and you are invited to come. You may be nearer than you imagine to your last opportunity. F. M. W.