A Swiss farmer had built his home on one of the lower slopes of a mighty mountain which lifted its great white summit high up in the clear air.
One spring, through a sudden breakup of the long winter, the place became very dangerous. The farmer was warned of the possible coming of an avalanche. He laughed at their timid fears for him. Had he not seen winters come and go for many years? He was not in any known avalanche track; it could not happen in his lifetime.
“But it is coming,” they said. He only smiled. One day on the heights above there was a sudden mighty cracking as of an explosion, then a slip—a rush—a deafening roar. And today that farmer lies in his tomb with a thousand tons of debris as the monument to his foolish delay. He refused all warning—he paid with his life.
This is the picture of the soul—madness that will not obey when God says:
“Today!”
“Now is the accepted time.”
“The Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ” (2 Thessalonians 1:7-8).