Heaven has become a trifle to you,
Hell is almost a jest,
eternity an empty notion, and
death but a bugbear!
to enter in, and shall not be able!"
Luke 13:24
I do not wonder that so many are
deceived, when I see the careless
way in which they deal with their souls.
When men have to do with their estates,
they are very careful; they pay a lawyer
to go back over the title-deeds perhaps
for two or three hundred years.
In trade they will hurry hither and
thither to attend to their commercial
engagements; they would not launch
into speculations, nor would they
run great risks.
But the soul, the poor soul--
how men play with it as a toy, and
despise it as if it were worthless!
Two or three minutes in the morning
when they first roll out of bed, two
or three odd minutes in the evening,
when they are nearly asleep--
the fag-ends of the day given
to their souls, and all the best
part given to the body!
And then, with what indifference
do you lend your ears too often
to the preaching of the Word!
It is an old song; you have
heard it so many times;
Heaven has become a trifle
to you, Hell is almost a jest,
eternity an empty notion, and
death but a bugbear!
Alas! it is a marvel that there
are not more deceived. The wonder
is that any find the gate, that any
discover eternal life, when we are
so, so mad, so foolish, so insane--
as to trifle where we ought to be
solemnly in earnest; and
to play and toy--
where the whole heart
should be given to a work
of such everlasting importance.
GOD help us, since it is
so easy to be deceived--
to search, and watch, and look,
and test, and try, that we be not
found castaways at the last!
For wide is the gate and broad
is the road that leads to destruction,
and many enter through it. But small
is the gate and narrow the road that
leads to life, and only a few find it!"
Matthew 7:13-14
you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do
you not realize that CHRIST JESUS is
in you--unless, of course, you fail the test?"
2 Corinthians 13:5
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