The thread of
life is held by the divine hand alone!
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(Samuel
Davies,
"A
New Year's Gift!" January 1,
1760)
"Knowing the TIME, that now it is high
time to awake out of sleep!"
Romans 13:11
TIME, like an ever-running stream, is perpetually gliding
on-and hurrying each of us into the boundless ocean of
eternity!
Consider the UNCERTAINTY of
your time! You may die . . .
the next year,
the next month,
the next week,
the next hour, or
the next moment!
I once knew a minister who, while he was speaking on this same
point-was
made a striking illustration of it, and instantly dropped
down dead in
the pulpit!
You cannot call one day of this next year your
own! Before that day comes, you may be done with time-and
have
entered
upon eternity!
People presume upon time, as if it were
guaranteed to
them
for
so many years; and this is the delusion which ruins
multitudes! How many are now in eternity, who began the last
year with
as little expectation of death, and hopes of long life-as you have
at
the beginning of the present year! And this may be your doom!
Should a prophet be sent to open the
book of the divine decrees
to you-as
Jeremiah did to Hananiah; some of you would no doubt see it written
there by your name, "This very year you are going to die!"
Jeremiah 28:16.
Some unexpected moment in this year-will put an end to all the labors
and enjoyments of the present state, and all the duties
and opportunities peculiar to it!
Therefore, if sinners would repent and believe-NOW is the time,
because this is the ONLY time they are certain of! Sinners, you may
be
in Hell before this year finishes its round-if you delay the great
business of salvation any longer!
For remember, time is uncertain!
Youth, health, strength,
business, riches, power, wisdom, and whatever this world
contains-cannot insure it. No, the thread
of
life is held by the divine hand alone;
and
God can snap it asunder, without warning, in whatever moment He
pleases!
"It is appointed unto men once to die, and after that to face judgment!"
Hebrews 9:27
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If you desire additional reading, we highly
suggest Samuel
Davies' superb sermon,
"A
New Year's Gift!"