SECOND
COMING: LACK OF INTEREST IN; EVANGELISM: URGENCY OF; COMPLACENCY

Christians are never to be caught unawares. They are never to put on their smoking jacket or the lounging robe while it is dark and the call of the trumpet is expected. The only safety for anyone is the blood. While the call of God may come at any minute to take us out of this Egypt we call the world, you and I cannot afford to be careless.

Instead of letting the cross keep us always on the alert and ready to go, we have painted the cross and reshaped it, and geared it in with the better element of the world. The people of God are asleep doing their little labors, while we wait for the call of the trumpet that will take us out of this world.

Oh, that we might again have that sense of immediacy and urgency that was upon the early church!

Exodus 12:11; 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18; 1 Peter 1:6–9, 13

The Tozer Pulpit, Volume 1, Book 1, 128.