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A Time for Decision!, April 10
Choose you this day whom ye will serve.
Joshua 24:15
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Today the world is mad: an insanity is upon men and women, and is
hurrying them on to eternal ruin. Every species of indulgence prevails,
and men have become so infatuated with vice that they will not listen to
warnings or appeals.
The Lord says to the people of the earth, “Choose you this day whom
ye will serve.” All are now deciding their eternal destiny. Men need to be
aroused to realize the solemnity of the time, the nearness of the day when
human probation shall be ended. God gives no man a message that it will be
five years or ten years or twenty years before this earth’s history shall close.
He would not give any living being an excuse for delaying the preparation
for His appearing. He would have no one say, as did the unfaithful servant,
“My lord delayeth his coming;” for this leads to reckless neglect of the
opportunities and privileges given to prepare us for that great day. Everyone
who claims to be a servant of God is called to do His service as if each day
might be the last....
Talk of the speedy appearing of the Son of man in the clouds of heaven
with power and great glory. Put not off that day....
Here is the great burden to be carried by each one. Are my sins forgiven?
Has Christ, the burden-bearer, taken away my guilt? Have I a clean heart,
purified by the righteousness of Jesus Christ? Woe be to any soul who is
not seeking a refuge in Christ. Woe be to all who shall in any way divert
the mind from the work, and cause any soul to be less vigilant now....
The great work from which the mind should not be diverted is the
consideration of our personal standing in the sight of God. Are our feet on
the Rock of Ages? Are we hiding ourselves in the only Refuge? The storm
is coming, relentless in its fury. Are we prepared to meet it? Are we one
with Christ as He is one with the Father? Are we heirs of God and joint
heirs with Christ? ...
The character of Christ is to be our character. We are to be transformed
by the renewing of our hearts. Here is our only safety. Nothing can separate
a living Christian from God.
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