HOW hard is man’s heart! A sledge-hammer plied against a granite rock would hardly leave a less impression than a warning does upon many souls in the present day.
How it fills the soul with awe as one listens to the story of some great calamity in which men are suddenly cut off—carried away “without remedy.” But how little the effect upon the mass in general!
A man, though “warned fifty times,” persisted in wheeling a barrow on a high scaffold, and paid the penalty with his death— “suddenly destroyed” “without remedy.”
Reader, if unsaved you are in infinitely greater danger than this heedless laborer with his barrow. You are in danger of “suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.” Yet what a comfort to know that the “Gospel” is God’s power unto salvation to every one that believeth.
Why am I in danger?
Because you have sinned.
Have not others?
Yes, but that does not screen you. Some in this world have discovered, through the entrance of God’s word into their souls, that they are guilty and lost. Directed to Jesus, the Sinbearer, they have believed on Him as God’s sent One, and are saved. Dare you risk your soul on a sinking foundation—and anything but Christ is a sinking foundation—or will you rest your soul for eternity on the finished work of God’s eternal Son? “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ” (even while reading these lines), “and thou shalt be saved.”
J. W.