"Next Friday Night"

From: Messages of God's Love: 1969

• 1 min. read • grade level: 5

Time is Short

It is time to seek the Lord

My times are in Thy hand

Eternity

EVERY Friday night a Christian man visits the jail in Rome, Georgia. He preaches to the prisoners there about the Lord Jesus, and the wonderful salvation He has prided for sinners.

One night a prisoner told Mr. Lloyd, “John, I’ll come to Christ next Friday night.”

“What if you die before then?” John asked.

“Never mind,” said the prisoner. “I’ll come next Friday night.”

The next Thursday night the prisoner died suddenly. He never lived to accept Christ on Friday night. How sad it was that he put off his salvation for one week. God’s Word tells us that NOW is the day of salvation—not tomorrow or next week. Are you putting off coming to Christ to be saved?

“It is time to seek the Lord.”

Hosea 10:12¹²Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the Lord, till he come and rain righteousness upon you. (Hosea 10:12).

“Behold, NOW is the accepted time; behold, NOW is the day of salvation.” 2 Corinthians 6:2²(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succored thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.) (2 Corinthians 6:2).

ML-10/19/1969

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