COME NOW, IT IS THE DAY OF SALVATION

 
AUGUST 26

COME NOW, IT IS THE DAY OF SALVATION.
 
"Behold, now is the accepted time;
      behold, now is the day of salvation." 2 Corinthians 6:2.
 
When anything of importance is confined to a day,
  it shows the necessity of paying immediate attention to it.
The day of salvation, with you, is the present day;
  tomorrow may be the day of condemnation.
 
Hence our Lord says, 

"Strive to enter in at the strait gate: 

  for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, 

  and shall not be able.   When once the master 

  of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, 

  and ye begin to stand without, and to knock 

  at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; 

  and he shall answer and say unto you, 

  I know you not whence ye are."

 
In another place we read, "And the door was shut!" 

In your case, my reader, the door is not shut yet,

  but you don't know how soon it may be.
 
Never was there such a convenient time as the present; 

  and wait as long as you will, there never will be. 

The door of salvation is now open.
 
There is no obstacle but 

  what is found in your own heart. 

There is nothing to discourage you, 

  but what is suggested by Satan, or your carnal nature.
 
Salvation is free, it is free for you. 

Jesus wrought it. 

Jesus gives it. 

Jesus offers it you. 

"Today, then, if you will hear his voice, 

   harden not your heart."
 
The Holy Spirit says, "Today;" 

     do not you say Tomorrow. 

Today you will be in time,

   tomorrow may be too late.
 
Today you have every facility; 

  it is emphatically "the day of salvation."
 
Thousands have received salvation, and are happy.

Thousands are now receiving salvation, 

  and will you loiter, and linger, 

  until the door is shut, and it is too late?
 
Come, come to Jesus today. 

Come and embrace his feet, and 

  he will lay you in his bosom. 

Come and cry at his footstool, and 

  he will raise you to praise him on his throne!
 
"Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; 

  and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! 

  Come, buy wine and milk without money 

    and without cost!"            Isaiah 55:1
 

 James Smith 1855