TWO young men returning from a meeting where they had heard the Gospel, and had been warned of their danger in neglecting it, parted at the street corner, one saying to the other,
“I’ll see you tomorrow night at the meeting.”
The other, who was deeply convicted of sin, said,
“Tomorrow is not ours, Jim.”
The night following, Jim was carried to his lodgings dead, killed by a fall in the shipyard. “Tomorrow” found him in the eternal world. There are no “tomorrows” with God.
“Today if you will hear his voice, harden not your heart.” Today He calls,
“Come, for all things are now ready.” Tomorrow is not yours: there is no certainty that you will be in life tomorrow. Tomorrow’s sun may shine upon your lifeless clay, your soul gone to its account. Be wise and settle the great matter of your eternal salvation, your relation to God and eternity, Today.
Today is God’s day of Grace, and your day of opportunity; tomorrow you may be beyond the reach’ of grace, and enduring God’s righteous judgment.
To reject it is to perish. To procrastinate and trifle with grace is to court eternal judgment.
ML 08/24/1924