Opportunities by M. E. Emmerson

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 21, 1909

Opportunities

By M. E. Emmerson

M. E. EMMERSON

OPPORTUNITIES come to all people. All have had opportunities, all have opportunities. Present time is the opportune time; that is, it is the right time to do the right thing. Every opportunity should be improved. Some are worth more than others, but all are worth so much that we can not afford to allow any to go by unimproved. An opportunity passed by unimproved never comes again.

The road of opportunities is that which every one traces from the earliest years of accountability to the grave. Every moment of life is freighted with some golden opportunity. Moment by moment they pass. Moment by moment life's work is done, and it is done never to be done over. Sometimes we say, “I must do this again.” So we do things over and over, and never do what we might have done had no time gone by unimproved.

In the school in which all mankind have been placed, it has been so ordered that no time should go to waste; and if we do allow any to waste in our hands, it is at our own expense. In the books of heaven it is charged against us. Let none say, “I have no time.” All passing time is ours. And the wise man says, “Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.”

There is always work to be done for God; and when the work is finished, the reward is ready. The reward is the most precious to be found in all the grand universe of God. It is life, precious life, never-ending. No treasure so precious has ever been found but that it would be given up willingly could life be lengthened a few short years.

Take up the work given by the Master. Tell the world that Jesus our King is coming in this generation. Talk it, live it. Be faithful to the end, and this never-fading reward will be yours.

Kolo, Basutoland, Africa.