IT IS TOLD of Hannibal, the great Carthaginian general, that when he could have taken Rome, he would not, and when he would have taken it he could not.
Is this not the case with many with respect to salvation. When they may find Christ, they will not seek Him, and at last when they would seek Christ they cannot find Him. When they may have mercy they do not prize it. When they would have mercy, they cannot obtain it. He who in his youth reckons it too early to be converted, shall in his old age find it too late to be saved.
Oh, won’t you come to Jesus while you’re young?
Don’t think it will be better
To delay it until later,
But remember your Creator while you’re young.
Remember, death may find you, while you’re young;
For friends are often weeping
And the stars their watch are keeping
O’er the grassy graves where sleeping are the young.
Ah, walk the path to glory while you’re young;
And Jesus will befriend you,
And from danger will defend you,
And a peace divine will send you while you’re young.
ML-06/16/1963