Are You Ready for Moving Day ?
We all remember “moving day,” and how carefully we preserved certain things, and how we left other things behind, because they were “not worth moving.” When the gospel shall have been preached to all the world, then we shall move from this world over into the next. Matt. 24:14. There will be some, who, like the rubbish on moving day, will be left behind; not because the Lord hates them, but because they will not be worth moving. Noah built an ark, and at the same time built character, and was ready when the crisis came. Heb. 11:7. There came a time when the Lord wanted to move those who were worth saving out of Sodom. Lot reluctantly responded. Lot’s wife was so wedded to earthly belongings that she had to look back to them, and so she was left behind. Gen. 19:14-26. The apostle James speaks of a time when the rich are heaping treasures together for the last days. “Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth.” James 5:4. When these things come to pass, the Lord admonishes us: “Stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.” James 5:8. When you read in the daily papers of the terrible perplexities growing out of the present relations between the rich and the poor, do they not sometimes suggest the thought to your mind that “moving day” is rapidly approaching? — The Life Boat.