Have you, my dear reader, thought seriously of the end? The end of this day — the end of this month — the end of this year — the end of this life? Indeed, the end of all earthly things?
The end is surely coming! It may be near!
The end will soon come! This life is short and uncertain at the best. A few more rising and setting suns — and we shall be gone numbered with the dead.
The end may come when you are not looking for it! You hope for long life, many days yet. You may be saying, "Tomorrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant." But God may say to you, as he did to the rich man of old, "You fool! You will die this very night! Then who will get everything you worked for?"
The end may come suddenly, like the flash of the lightning, or stealthily as a thief in the night. "For in such an hour as you think not — the Son of man will come."
The end may come when you are not prepared for it — not prepared at all, or poorly prepared for it. Are you prepared for it now? What assurance have you that you would be in the future? "Procrastination is the thief of time."
O, what shall the end of all earthly things be to you? Would sudden death — be sudden glory? "And if the righteous are scarcely saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?" "But sin, when it is finished, brings forth death." "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."
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