18/05/2016
IF .....
IF I make my bed in hell ... Psalms 139:8
Astonishing words are these! I was never made for such an end. This soul of mine, at the start, was designed to run on forever with the life of God. His highest purpose for me was eternal bliss: Hell was prepared only "for the devil and his angels," not for me. But sin changed my destiny, and unless I alter my downward Satanic coirse, I can only share his fate.
IF I make my bed innhell still, I can never successfully deny that God loved me. He "so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." That whosoever includes me, even though I have not loved Him in return, nor believed on His Son as my Saviour.
IF I make my bed in hell, I will always remembet that Christ came into the world to save me. Did He not say, "The Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost! Though hell be my final abod3, the fact will always remain irrefutable, that His mission in the world could have saved me, had it not been for my wicked and impenitent heart.
IF I make my bed in hell, I will never be able to forget that He died for me! "He tasted death for every man (FOR ME) and bore in His own body our sins (mine) on the tree". Provisionally, He became the Saviour of all men, but actually of them who "believed". Why, O why have I not believed? He could become my Savioir too.
IF I make my bed in hell, I will never get rid of the fact that I had access to God's word, the bible. Was it not a "best seller" in my generation on earth, and did He not command me, "search the scripture ... they are they which testify of me." I neglect them, but their precepts, warnings and commands are "forever settled in heaven" and in hell too ....
IF I make my bed in hell, I will recall the faithfulness of the Holy Spirit in reproving me of sin. I have known His gentle wooing, but have spurned Him whose merciful purpose had been sealed me "unto the Day of Redemption". What else could have been God's merciful intention in striving with my soul except "repentance leading to life" What a fool I've been.
IF I make my bed in hell, it will be forever! O, the fixedness of eternal doom, where "the worm dieth not and the fire os not quenched, "where there is weeping and wailing and gnashing pf teeth." Here is an immortality pf pains and tears, and infinity pf wretchedness and despair where each moment seems like an eternity.
What will I do in a world where there is no light; where no prayers are ever answered; where no hymns are sung; where Jesus' name is never uttered except in blasphemy? Have I ever though seriously of that dark realm where there are no churches, no hymn books and no Bible? Am I really aware that there is a place where the Holy Spirit will never again stir my sinful soul where I am left to my own depravity? My God! I am headed now in that direction! What must I do to be saved?
There must be one course I can yet pursue amd be infallably safe. I will turn to God's Blessed Book I read, "All have sinned." My conscience tells me I am included. I also read "Christ died for the ungodly". Then He died for me! But I read further, "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life and shall not come into condemnation but is passed from death into life. Him that cometh unto me I will in no wise cast out ... Whosoever confesseth me before my Father which is in heaven."
