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WHEN WILL YOU MEET JESUS?

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 7, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 14.

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WHEN WILL YOU MEET JESUS?

By Stemple White

God hates sin (Heb. 1:9), but He loves the sinner (John 3:16; 1 John 3:1). God will not behold sin (Hab. 1:13), but He sees the sinner all the time (Job 28:24; 34:21).
God will punish him who is identified with sin (Eze. 18:31; Isa. 13:11; Amos 3:2), but He will save him whose sin is covered (Ps. 32:1). He will cover us with His “robe of righteousness.” Rom. 4:3, 22–24; Rev. 6:11.
“God so loved the world, that He gave His only-begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” Jesus, who knew no sin, “gave Himself for us,” who are all sin (Titus 2:14), and in buying us, He bought our sins. Now He wants us to bring to Him our sins, which He has bought, and in exchange get His righteousness. What a blessed exchange! and when are we to make it?—Now.
“While Jesus whispers to you, Come, sinner, come!”
“before the decree bring forth,” for “the end is near and hasteth greatly.” Who, then, can neglect so great salvation?
Yet there are people who never expect to meet Christ. They not only do not want to meet Him, but they think they do not have to meet Him. But what a sad mistake this is! For all must, of necessity, come in contact with the “Rock of Ages.” For “whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be broken; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.” Luke 20:18. And, again, “some men’s sins are opened beforehand, going before to judgment; and some men they follow after.” 1 Tim. 5:24.
O, how much better it will be for each of us to fall upon that stone now, be broken of our human, sinful nature, forsake sin for righteousness, deny ourselves, and be partakers of the divine nature, rather than to shun that Rock now, and finally, at the “great judgment-seat,” meet Him for the first time and be ground to dust, from whence we were taken. ’Tis better to meet that Rock as a “Saviour” and “Prince of Peace,” than as a sin-destroyer.
O reader, have you met Him?—will you meet Him now?—or will you shun Him and thus say that you deem yourself unworthy of having been created?
STEMPLE WHITE.
Brighton, Iowa.