THE BEST TIME by Robert Murray M’Cheyne
I do not pretend to give a reason why it is so; but God has so ordered it His infinite wisdom that the period of youth is the best time for being saved. It has been observed and it is very remarkable, that in all the great revivals that have taken place in our won and in bygone days, the most of theose who have been converted were young people. Jonathan Edwards states this is his narrative of the revival in New England and Robe states the same in his account of the revival at Kilsyth n 1742. And have we not seen it among ourselves, that while young persons have been melted and converted, those who are older have only grown more hardened in sin.
O young people! Improve, I intreat you, your young days. Seek the Lord while yet your hearts are young and tender. If you delay, you will grow harder and then humanly speaking, it will be more difficult to be saved. No doubt God can save sinners at any age; but He seems peculiarly to choose the time of youth. He loves the hear and infant sing – He loves to hear praise from the mouths of babes and sucklings. Oh then, my brethren, will you not seek him in the days of your youth? Will you not call upon Him while He may be found? If you let your young days pass over your heads without being saved, you will remember your misspent privileges when you are in hell, and you will bitterly mourn over them throughout eternity. |
|