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Posted by Servant (Member # 1795) on :

Evangelism: Such a Short Time

So he said to him, "Friend, how did you come in here without a wedding
garment?" And he was speechless. Then the king said to the servants,
"Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and cast him into outer
darkness; there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."
--Matthew 22:12-13

...we have such a short time to prepare for such a long time. By that
I mean we have now to prepare for then. We have an hour to prepare
for eternity. To fail to prepare is an act of moral folly. For anyone
to have a day given to prepare, it is an act of inexcusable folly to
let anything hinder that preparation. If we find ourselves in a
spiritual rut, nothing in the world should hinder us. Nothing in this
world is worth it. If we believe in eternity, if we believe in God,
if we believe in the eternal existence of the soul, then there is
nothing important enough to cause us to commit such an act of moral
folly.

Failing to get ready in time for eternity, and failing to get ready
now for the great then that lies out yonder, is a trap in plain
sight. There is an odd saying in the Old Testament, "How useless to
spread a net in full view of all the birds" (Proverbs 1:17). When the
man of God wrote that, he gave the birds a little credit. It would be
silly for a bird watching me set the trap to conveniently fly down
and get into it. Yet there are people doing that all the time. People
who have to live for eternity fall into that trap set for them in
plain sight.

"And Lord, I have the message that will enable them to prepare. Give
me a willingness--no a passion--to do my part in this urgent matter.
Amen."

From: Tozer on Christian Leadership
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