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Seek the Lord While He May Be Found, December 2
Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is
near.
Isaiah 55:6
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The time is coming when it will be too late to seek God, and I have
been thinking how we shall feel when probation is closed, and all our
life-work ended. With what feeling shall we review the past? Shall we
then wish that our efforts to serve God had been more earnest? Shall we
wish that we had lived more in harmony with His revealed will? Shall we
then be accounted as faithful servants? What if at this moment we should
hear the voice of Christ saying, “It is done”? ...
In view of the solemn responsibilities that rest upon us, let us con-
template the future, that we may understand what we must do in order to
meet it.... In the solemn assembly of the last day, in the hearing of the
universe, will be read the reason of the condemnation of the sinner. For the
first time parents will learn what has been the secret life of their children.
Children will see how many wrongs they have committed against their
parents. There will be a general revealing of the secrets and motives of the
heart; for that which is hid will be made manifest. Those who have made
sport of solemn things connected with the judgment, will be sobered as
they face its terrible reality. Those who have despised the Word of God,
will then face the Author of the inspired oracles. We cannot afford to live
with no reference to the day of judgment; for though long delayed, it is
now near, even at the door, and hasteth greatly....
When you consider solemn things, do you not realize, dear youth, that
you must cease from your selfish, sinful course,—cease to do evil, and
learn to do good? It is your own course of action that will mold your
character for destruction or for the bliss of the ceaseless ages of eternity....
Will you heed the injunction, “Seek ye the Lord while he may be
found, call ye upon him while he is near”
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The Youth’s Instructor, July 21, 1892
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