“There will be a total eclipse of the sun visible from this continent on October 26, 2144.
“This is not a guess. It is a guarantee. For astronomers can predict the courses of the sun and moon and earth for centuries to come.
“Yet science, for all its ability to peer into the future of the solar system, cannot predict the course of your own life for the next 24 hours.”
This was written in 1938. Is it still true? Absolutely. The solar system continues to move in the orderly pattern in which God set it and will continue to move as He wills it. It is predictable.
What about your life? Is it absolutely predictable? The scientists would not venture to predict your future. You know your past, your antecedents, your abilities, your present position; you may feel secure in your future plans, but 24 hours from now one drunken driver could make a shambles of your life, your family and your future.
Some things are fixed and certain: “It is appointed unto men once to die” (Hebrews 9:2727And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: (Hebrews 9:27)). The time and place are not foretold, but the fact is inevitable. And “after this, the judgment.” The God who set the solar system in its orbit will not deviate from His course by as much as the breadth of a hair.
Knowing this, what is the wise thing to do? Should you go on carelessly and “hope for the best”? Pretty foolish! There is a way - only one way - to be certain and sure that you will be protected when life on earth ends for you. The Lord Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me” (John 14:66Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. (John 14:6)).
He also said, “Him that cometh to Me I will in no wise cast out.” Two absolute certainties - as certain as the orbits of the sun and moon and earth. “Two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie,” that “we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast” (Hebrews 6:1819).
Sure - and steadfast - and oh, how comforting! But you must make it your own, and do it now. There may be no tomorrow for you. “NOW IS THE DAY OF SALVATION.”