Praise God—it is almost Sunday! We *get* to go back to church again! In or-der to help us get ready for this highest calling, here is Thomas Watson, from his, "The One Thing Necessary" treatise. . . .
"The seasons of grace, though they are precious, are not permanent. Abused mercies are like Noah's dove, they fly from us. . . . Gospel blessings are very sweet, but they are very fleeting. 'Now they are hid from your eyes' (Luke 19:42). We do not know how soon the golden candlestick may be removed."There is a time when the Spirit ceases striving. There are certain spring tides of the Spirit, and when these are neglected, we may never see another tide come in. When conscience is finished speaking, usually the Spirit is done striving.
"The loss of gospel opportunities will be the hell of hell. When a sinner shall at the last day think with himself, 'Oh, what I might have been! I might have been as rich as the angels. as rich as heaven could make me. I had a season of opportunity, but I lost it.' This, this will be as a vulture gnawing upon him; this will enhance and accent of his misery."
