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| It's Now or Never - death ends all opportunity |
1 Corinthians 7:31 - And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this
world passeth away.
Time is ending quickly. Yesterday is gone and cannot be redeemed. The old idle
times we’ve wasted in useless recreation will never be brought back to us.
Likewise, tomorrow is not guaranteed. All you have is now.
Richard Baxter had much to say on this subject in his book ‘Now or Never.’ Here
are just a few short quotes:
-"...you may hear, read, learn, and pray; but when this life is ended, it shall
be so no more."
-"Will He renew thy age and make thee young again, and call back the hours that
thou prodigally wasted on thy lusts and idleness?"
-"God's kingdom and its righteousness must first be sought, and our labour for
the meat that perishes must be comparatively as none."
-"If ever you will repent and believe, it must be now."
-"It makes my heart even shake within me to think that what cries those damned
souls would strive with God, and how they would roar out, 'O try us once again,'
if they had but the least encouragement of hope! But it will not be, it must not
be. They had their day, and would not know it: they cannot lose their time and
have it."
-“once the thread of life is cut, your opportunities are at an end."
-"That which once was, will be no more. Yesterday will never come again. To-day
is passing, and will not return. You may work while it is day; but when you have
lost that day, it will not return for you to work in. While your candle burns,
you may make use of its light, but when it is done, it is too late to use it."
“Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work,
nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.” (Ecc
9:10) |
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