Importance of Now by Arnot

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Aug 2, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 30.

Importance of Now

By Arnot

"Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation." "To-morrow" is the devil's great ally,—the very Goliath in whom he trusts for victory. "Now" is the stripling whom God sends forth against him. A great significance lies in that little word. It marks the point on which life's battle turns. That spot is the Hougomont of Waterloo. There the victory is lost or won. Men do not often join issue against God on the person of Christ or the ministry of the Spirit, on the ground of acceptance or the necessity of faith; on all these points, and many others, the carnal mind readily acquiesces in the doctrine of Scripture, like willows bending to the breeze, but resists Christ's claim to be admitted now, as a rocky shore resists the onset of the waves. The worldly will freely agree to be Christian to-morrow if Christ will permit them to be worldly to-day.—Arnot.