Are You Ready? / David Jeremiah

 

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 have 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.”

Recommended Reading: Psalm 86:1-5

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 ourselves away by sin, but he hath freely done it to magnify his mercy. Richard Baxter