“The time is short” (1 Corinthians 7:29).
How short? Who knows? Not you—not I. But we can be sure of this one fact: time is shorter than we think. What God calls “short” cannot be made “long.” No man can stretch out the span of his appointed life, and it is disastrous to attempt to deny or evade the final issue.
How short? Man has not the answer to that question, nor is the answer to be found even in the Bible. God alone is time’s controller, and my times are in God’s hands (Psalm 31:15). That is the only possible answer. That is why the Word of God so urgently states the great truth that “now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation” (2 Corinthians 6:2).
That is why almighty God invites: “Come now, and let us reason together” (Isaiah 1:18).
That is why the Holy Spirit pleads in solemn warning: “Today if ye will hear His voice, harden not your hearts” (Hebrews 3:7-8). The time is short!
It is shorter than you realize. It is too short to be wasted in sin and ruined in iniquity. But it is just long enough if you turn now in “repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ” (Acts 20:21).
It is just long enough for your soul to say “Yes” to Jesus and to enter into the blessedness of “therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature” (2 Corinthians 5:17). TIME and LIFE are far, far too short for anything less than that!