Drawing Nigh to God....series

Drawing Nigh to God

by Minnie E. Dauphinee

 

 

The Connecting Link...The Urgency of Prayer

 

Soon the investigative judgement now going on in the most holy place of the heavenly sanctuary will be finished, and Christ will declare, "He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: ...and he that is holy, let him be holy still" (Revelations 22:11) It will then be too late to pray, for the destiny of all will have been decided.

 

Jesus wept over Jerusalem. "how often," He cried, "would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!" (Matthew 23:37) He was thinking of the many times He had spoken to their hearts, and they had refused to respond. Hew as about to speak to them for the last time.

 

William III made a proclamation, when there was a revolution in the north of Scotland, that all who would come and take the oath of allegiance by December 31 should be pardoned. Mac Ian, a man of prominence, resolved to return and take the oath, but took pride in the thought that he would be the very last one to do so. He consequently postponed starting on this errand until two days before the expiration date. A snowstorm impeded his way, and before he reached the throne to receive a pardon, the time set had passed. While others were pardoned, Mac Ian was put to death. He came too late.

 

Some people excuse their neglect of prayer by saying that they are too busy. One has said, "We might work better and do more work if we gave less time to work and more time to prayer."

 



That we may find time for daily prayer and meditation, it may be necessary for us to leave undone some things- important things-but whatever the sacrifice called for, let us take time. There is an urgency in the admonition "Seek ye the Lord while He may be found" (Isaiah 55:6)