God's
Ambassadors

Suggestions? Comments?
email the Webmaster

January 02, 2007

Suggested Scripture Reading: Psalm 139

Be Prepared!

"Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel."
Amos 4:12

It was said of a certain Scotch minister of some prominence, that he was very eccentric, and had his own peculiar way of doing things to startle men into the realization of their need of Christ. "Just as the year was opening," said one of his parishioners, "I was very busy in my shop, when, right in the midst of my work, in stepped the doctor, without so much as a knocking or a word of announcement. 'Did you expect me?' was his abrupt inquiry. 'No, Sir,' was the reply, 'I did not.' He waited a minute and then said grimly, 'What if I had been Death?' Then he turned on his heel and departed as suddenly as he had come, while his solemn warning re-echoed in my ears: 'What if I had been Death?' Although his approach was unusual and startling, it set me to thinking, with the result that I made my 'calling and election sure.'"

How about you, fellow traveler to eternity's shores - pause a moment in life's busy whirl; have you answered God's call of grace? Have you counted the cost if your soul should be lost? There is but one way to reach heaven's sinless and holy bowers: not by your own poor works, not by your impotent and feeble strivings, but only by sovereign grace. Have you asked the Saviour for His blessed, unmerited favor and pardon? Have you asked Him for a new heart? Oh, delay no longer; for "except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom" (John 3:3). "Prepare to meet thy God" (Amos 4:12) . . . "Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live" (II Kings 20:1).

HGB

First   Previous   Calendar   Next   Today