Now Is The Only Time We Have

This is the hour of crisis.  I cannot stress it  strongly enough: this  is a desperate hour. Why do you suppose Jesus said, “work while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.” (Jno.9:4). Just what do you think is meant by Paul when he said, “always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.” (1 Cor.15:58)?

            From our soft pews we survey today a world torn asunder by every kind of vice and acts of  selfishness  one could image.  Government holds up one social program after another; and the church of the Lord seems to think it can wave some magic wand and then everyone will become hard workers in the kingdom, and have a full amount of righteousness. It would seem to me that by now we should have learned better. But, oh no! We pride ourselves over our beautiful buildings, our beautiful kept lawns, and our off-shore programs, and all are nothing more than “whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones.” (Matt.23:27). 

            Listen! Now is the only time we have, and we have no more to waste. We have not touched  the hem of the garment. Hearts are closed and growing harder as time passes on. Attitudes show signs more and more of “a proud look, a lying tongue,...and he that soweth discord among brethren.” (Prov.6:16-18). All of which we noticed that “the LORD hates.”

We have dealt with things afar-off, no hands on, and a well satisfied set of mind. We have dealt impersonally with evil and with our Saviour. It is time for the soldiers of Christ to arise, for the fight is on. If we ever become serious about converting others, it will be done one person  at a time….beginning with  ourselves!  I am convinced that some are not yet converted. If such takes place it will call for an excruciating painful knowledge of our own personal  sins, and discarding the  lukewarmness  that has plagued  us for too long. Our promised  “life, more abundantly” will come and be enjoyed when and only when we have learned to walk in the steps of Christ. Pray often, and work hard, for Now Is The Only Time We Have.

. . . .Fred  House