Were you never struck how often, amid the many gentle words of Jesus, the summons “to watch,” is over and over repeated, like a succession of alarum bells breaking ever and anon, amid chimes of heavenly music, to rouse a sleeping Church and a slumbering world? “Let this last “word” of thy Lord’s send thee to thy knees with the question, “Am I indeed a servant of Christ?” Have I fled to Him, and am I reposing in Him, as my only Saviour? or am I still linger “lingering, like Lot, when I should be escaping sleeping, when I should be waking neglecting and trifling, when “a long eternity is lying at my door?” He is my last and only refuge; neglect Him all is lost! Believer! thou who art standing on thy watch-tower, be more faithful than ever at thy post. Remember what is implied in watching. It is no dreamy state of inactive torpor: it is a holy jealousy over the heart wakeful vigilance regarding sin every avenue and loophole of the soul carefully guarded. Holy living is the best, the only, preparative for holy dying. “Persuade yourself,” says Rutherford, “the King is coming. Read His letter sent before Him, ‘Behold I come quickly;’ wait with the wearied night-watch for the breaking of the Eastern sky. See to it that the calls of an engrossing world without, do not foster this procrastinating spirit within. It may be now or never with thee. Put not off thy sowing time till harvest time. Leave nothing for a dying hour, but to die, and calmly to resign thy spirit into the hands of Jesus. Of all times, that is the least suitable to have the vessel plenished to attend to the great business of life when life is ebbing to trim the lamp when the oil is done and it is flickering in its socket to begin to watch, when the summons is heard to leave the watch-tower to meet our God!
Posted on: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 20:28:07 +0000
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