Seek the Lord while you can find him.Have you ever waited too late to take advantage of something? A sale, an offer from a friend for something, pursuing a job opportunity?
Call on him now while he is near. (Isaiah 55:6)
You wait, thinking that it will be there when you get ready and then when you go to look at it again, it is gone.
Everything has an expiration date, even the offer of salvation from God. There will come a time when you can no longer accept it.
The Bible is pretty explicit when it says call on him while he is near, look for him while youc an still find him. One day, it will be too late if you do not.
One day you will die. And when you die, the offer of grace will be closed. That is the unforgivable sin that Jesus talks about. In Mark 3:28-29, he says: I tell you the truth, all sin and blasphemy can be forgiven, but anyone who blasphemes the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven. This is a sin with eternal consequences.
There will come a time when you will have blasphemed the Holy Spirit, turned your back on the grace of God, refused the final time to accept his offer of love.
When it does, and you have died, there are no more offers. He has closed the chance to accept him.
What can you do then? Nothing. You have refused to call on him.
But it doesn’t have to be that way. You do not have to be lost, you do not have to be outside his grace.
The apostle Peter said this same thing in 2 Peter 3:8-10: But you must not forget this one thing, dear friends: A day is like a thousand years to the Lord, and a thousand years is like a day. The Lord isn’t really being slow about his promise, as some people think. No, he is being patient for your sake. He does not want anyone to be destroyed, but wants everyone to repent. But the day of the Lord will come as unexpectedly as a thief. Then the heavens will pass away with a terrible noise, and the very elements themselves will disappear in fire, and the earth and everything on it will be found to deserve judgment.
God never made hell for us. He made it as a place for the devil and his angels to reside (2 Peter 2:4). He never wanted us to go there.
But it is where those who refuse to accept God go. If they refuse to accept his grace and his love, they cannot go to be with him, so they go to be without him.
Don’t wait too long. Call on him now.
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