Wise Men Seek Jesus!

posted on 24 November 2010 | posted in Point to ponder | ( 0 ) Comments

Have a nap and sleep if you want to. Fold your hands and rest awhile, but while you are asleep, poverty will attack you like an armed robber. Prov 24:33-34

The lazy person only asks for a little nap; they would be indignant if they were accused of thorough idleness. A little folding of the hands to sleep is all they crave, and they have lots of reasons to show that this indulgence is a very proper one.

Yet by these little rests the day ebbs out, and the time for work is all gone, and the field is grown over with thorns. It is by little procrastinations that men ruin their souls. They have no intention to delay for years - a few months will bring the more convenient season - tomorrow if you will, they will attend to serious things; but the present hour is so occupied and altogether so unsuitable, that they beg to be excused.

Like sands from an hour-glass, time passes, life is wasted by driblets,and seasons of grace lost by little slumbers. Oh, to be wise, to catch the flying hour, to use the moments on the wing! May the Lord teach us this sacred wisdom, for otherwise a poverty of the worst sort awaits us, eternal poverty which shall want even a drop of water, and beg for it in vain.

Like a traveller steadily pursuing his journey, poverty overtakes the idle,and ruin overthrows the undecided: each hour brings the dreaded pursuer nearer; he pauses not by the way, for he is on his master's business and must not tarry. As an armed man enters with authority and power, so shall want come to the idle, and death to the impenitent, and there will be no escape.

O that men were wise, and seek diligently Jesus, or before the solemn day dawns when it will be too late to plough and to sow, too late to repent and believe. In harvest, it is vain to cry that the seed time was neglected. There is still time for faith, now is the time to choice to follow Jesus.

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