Such is procrastination. A servant of the Lord related the following illustration of this:—
A bright boy heard and was deeply impressed by the text, “My son, give Me thine heart.” Satan whispered, “Time enough yet,” and he put it off.
Ten years later a brilliant college student heard the same text under circumstances which seemed to make that the time of his salvation. Again the tempter whispered successfully, “Time enough yet.”
Twenty years later a statesman listened to the same text from the lips of an aged preacher, and felt it was a message for him. This time the tempter said, “Visit foreign countries before you decide.”
A traveler in Paris was stricken with cholera. But his greatest suffering was agony of soul because he was not prepared to die. His last words were, “Too late!”
The boy, the college student, the statesman, and the traveler were one and the same person.
ML 06/18/1961