0415. Felix Deferred

Felix Deferred

"Felix answered * * Go thy way for this time" (Act_14:25).

The words of our key text really mean: "Not now."

How often does the personal worker, as he presses salvation upon some convicted soul, hear the selfsame words, "Not now." Yet, now is the only time that we have. We do not live in the past, we do not live in the future, we live only in the present. We cannot say to-morrow we will go into such a city and buy and sell and get gain, for we know not what will be on the morrow. Besides, when the morrow comes, it will be to-day.

Illustration: Once we saw over the entrance door to a great factory, the words, "Visitors not welcome to-day, come to-morrow." We thought we would go around, the next day, and see the sights. We went, and when we got there the sign that met our gaze, still said: "Come to-morrow."

We live in one eternal now, we cannot get out of it, we cannot go around it, we cannot pass over it–it is always now.

Now is the only time that God asks us to be saved. It is written, "Behold now is the accepted time; behold now is the day of salvation." It is written again, "Come, for all things are now ready." No one can, with safety, let this invitation of God pass by until the morrow.

Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR