Mission Venture Ministries

“As God’s co-workers we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain. For He says, “In the time of my favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.” I tell you, now is the time of God’s favor, now is the day of salvation.” (2 Corinthians 6:1-2)

As we read this message of Paul to the Corinthians we notice the urgency for unbelievers not to procrastinate in making things right with God. 

Many people even though they have heard the gospel and are aware of their need for salvation, still put off their decision to tomorrow or perhaps some other day! 

It is important to understand that it is dangerous to count on tomorrow as the Word of God warns us: “you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes” (James 4:13-14). 

Procrastination is a sin that neglects the Word of God; and if a person continues on this path they will become indifferent and the consequences are that when their life reaches the end, they’ll spend eternity in the Lake of Fire instead of with God. Like the rich fool who was only focused on what he could amass, and God told him ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’ (Luke 12:20). 

Please be aware that all our best laid out plans are always subject to the will of God because He is our Creator and He gives life and takes it away. We have been given free will and demand to be masters of our own eternal destiny; however, because we do not know what will happen, today, tomorrow or next week, it is vital that we yield to the Lord Jesus Christ and accept His free gift of salvation before it is too late.

The psalmist wrote: “Today, if only you would hear His voice, “Do not harden your hearts…” (Psalm 95:7-8). This was such an important warning, that the writer of Hebrews quoted it three times, (Hebrews 3:7-8, Hebrews 3:15; Hebrews 4:7). This is an emphatic warning against unbelief and procrastination; and cautions that there is indeed great danger in resisting God’s call to salvation. 

Today is the day of salvation. The accepted time is now! Because, “How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?  (Hebrews 10:29). 

You may be given other opportunities, but it is presumptuous and dangerous to impose too long on God’s patience and mercy. There needs to be a realization that the Word of God is true and that “All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness” (2 Timothy 3:16). 

In the book of John chapter 3 we read: “For God so loved the world that he gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him. Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son” (vs. 16-18). 

The Lord is giving you another chance and there is not a moment to waste, because, as we read: “It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God” (Hebrews 10:31). 

Please understand that God has an acceptable time for each one to accept Jesus as Savior and to make Him the Lord of their life, but God’s patience will not last forever. 

If you are ready, and we hope that you are, to accept the free gift of eternal life please read this simple plan of SALVATION.

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