“And
that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now
is our salvation nearer than when we believed.” Romans 13:11.
The great controversy is nearing its end. Every
report of calamity by sea or land is a testimony to the fact that the end of
all things is at hand. Wars and rumors of wars declare it. Is there a Christian
whose pulse does not beat with quickened action as he anticipates the great
events opening before us? The Lord is coming. We hear the footsteps of an
approaching God.
This knowledge of the nearness of Christ’s coming
should not be allowed to lose its force, and we become careless and inattentive,
and fall into slumber—into an insensibility and indifference to realities…
There are those who have the blazing light of truth shining all around them,
and yet are insensible to it… They are not preparing for that great day which
is soon to come to our world. They seem utterly insensible to religious truth.
Are there not some youth who are awake? Those who see
that the night cometh, and also the morning, should work with untiring energy
to arouse their sleeping associates... The rapidly diminishing space of time
between us and eternity should more deeply impress us. Every day that passes
makes one less left us to complete our work of perfecting character... As long
as there are many asleep, many sporting away the precious hours in careless
indifference, as it were, upon the very brink of the eternal world, those who
do believe must be sober, must be awake, must be earnest and diligent, and
watch unto prayer....
Our High
Calling, p. 346
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