While traveling in Jamaica with a friend, a native of the island, we saw growing near the roadside a curious little bush. He pointed to it, and suggested that I let my clothes touch it. I did so, and at once found myself caught by a barbed thorn not unlike a fish-hook.
While freeing myself from it I was snagged by another, and then again by still another. It was only with much care and patience that I got clear of it at last. "Wait a bit" is the name given to the bush by the natives of the island, and an exceptionally good name it is.
Has not Satan many such bushes growing alongside the road which leads to salvation? Indeed he has. Maybe you wake up to the fact that it is time you thought of eternity. Immediately you are snared by some pleasure, or pursuit, or sin, which holds and detains you, saying, "Wait a bit!" Many poor souls are thus held until it is forever too late.
Do you intend to be saved, to have Jesus for your Savior some day? Don't "wait a bit;" do it now. Do not tread the road of By-and-By, for it leads eventually to the town of "Never-never.”
"Christ also hath once suffered
for sins, the just for the unjust,
that He might bring us to God.”
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