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God Tells us in Ezekiel
33:3..."When he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the
trumpet, and warn the people."
Are you ready to meet God? To test
this question, let me present this situation: suppose you went to the
doctor for a test, and a few days later, you were told that you had a
terrible, incurable illness that would take your life in the next thirty
days. After the initial shock, would you begin to be increasingly at
peace and in happiness that soon you would be leaving this life with all
its tears and sorrows and would soon be in the glorious presence of your
Savior?
Or, would you find an increasing
bitterness and resentment in your soul that your life is being so quickly
cut off. Such a careful examination can help you to know if you are ready
to meet God.
Never before in the history of the
world have so many people been at risk: More than five billion souls are
in danger of meeting God face-to- face with no defense or covering for
their sins. Every one of these people, men, women, and children, if he or
she is not covered with Christ's robes of righteousness, will be found
guilty of breaking God's law, and will be sent to Hell to forever suffer
for his or her violations of God's law.
Don't think for a minute that
there will be any comfort in the number of unsaved people because the
Bible tells us in Luke 23:30: "Then shall they begin to say to the
mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us."
To plan to wait until the last
minute before Christ returns and then repent and turn to Christ for
forgiveness is very dangerous. God tells us that... "behold, now is
the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation" (II
Corinthians 6:2).
In fact, not one of us can know
that we will be alive tomorrow. Not one of us is guaranteed another day.
Therefore, the urgency to be ready to meet God is now. Right now is the
time to be ready for eternity. Every day, almost 200,000 people die. You
or I could be one of the people who will die tonight, and then our
eternal fate is set forevermore. Now is the time to cry to God for mercy
and to repent of sins.
Don't believe it for a minute if
you read a bumper sticker somewhere or if someone told you, "Oh,
it's so wonderful that God has a wonderful plan for your life, and God
loves you," unless you know that you have repented of your sins and
have a sincere and deep desire to do only what pleases God. If you do not
want to obey God's Word, the Bible, then you had better think about your
spiritual condition. God tells us in Philippians 2:12: "work out
your own salvation with fear and trembling.
If you, dear reader, are not
saved, there is still a little time to cry to God for mercy. If you have
any doubts at all about your salvation, cry to God for mercy!
Look in your Bible at the reaction
of the Ninevites to the proclamation of Jonah that in forty days Nineveh
was to be destroyed (Jonah 3:4-9). Nineveh was a wicked and Godless city,
in complete rebellion against the God of the Bible. Yet, they repented,
and from information found in the New Testament, we can know that many of
them became saved.
Are you ready to meet God? The God
of heaven who spared the Ninevites is the same God who will spare you
from the impending judgment if you cry to Him for mercy.
This is not a time for theological
debate. This is not a time to put your trust in your
denomination's doctrine. Your trust must be in the Bible only.
My earnest prayer and desire is that you will search out the Scriptures,
knowing that God's judgment is coming on the unsaved and this
world. Cry to God in repentance for His mercy. May He bless
you abundantly through the work of His dear Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.
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