TWO men were standing at the corner of a street in one of the busy towns.
Whilst they stood there a wagon went by, full of men, evidently intent on spending a gay time, regardless of the fact that it was the Lord’s day. As they passed, one of the men standing there said to the other,
“That’s it, work all the week, and enjoy yourself on Sundays.”
A Christian lady near, overhearing this remark, turned, and looking earnestly at both men said,
“And what for God?” They both looked surprised and ashamed. May we not hope that this question was used in causing them to think seriously of their godless lives?
How many there are in the world like these poor men, of whom it may be said,
“God is not in all their thoughts,” and that they are living “without God,” and spending their lives for this world and for themselves. And yet God has given His very best for us—His only begotten Son—that He might die to save us from that eternal ruin which is our just due on account of our sins. God could not do more.
Dear Reader, are you living your life with no thoughts of God in it? How solemn for you if, in one moment, He were to call you away from this world, saying to you,
“This night thy soul shall be required of thee,” and afterwards to have “to give an account of the deeds done in the body.” O, will you not turn to Him ere it is too late? and you will find Him now to be what He says Himself He is, “A God ready to pardon,” because “the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin.” 1 John 1:77But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. (1 John 1:7).
ML 12/27/1925