Are You Ready?
"For You, Lord, are good,
and ready to forgive."
Psalm 86: 5
Puritan Richard Baxter once preached
a sermon to those who needed to give
their lives to Christ.
He said, “Heaven itself is ready; the Lord will
receive you into the glory of His saints, a vile
brute as you've been. If you will be cleansed,
you may have a
place before His throne. His
angels will be ready to guard your soul to the
place of joy, if you but sincerely come in. And
God is ready, the sacrifice of Christ is ready,
the promise is ready, the pardon is ready.”
Then he asked his audience:
“But are you ready?”
Because of Adam’s sin, death entered into
the world. Because of
Christ’s resurrection,
we have life. Though everyone is born in sin
and will one day die, if we are in Christ,
we’ll be resurrected.
All of heaven is ready for you to make
that decision, which you can make
today.
Say, “Yes, Lord, I am ready to follow You!”
"God was not bound to provide us a Saviour,
nor open to us a door of hope, nor call us to
repent and turn when once we had cast our
selves away by sin, but he hath freely
done
it to magnify his mercy."
Richard Baxter