A Weighty Question


Asked by Lorraine Boettner

 
 

How would you want to spend the time if you knew that tomorrow would be your last day on earth?


Would you need to spend it asking for that forgiveness of sin which you should have asked for long ago? It is, of course, infinitely better to make a death-bed repentance than not to repent at all.


But many who put off until the last moment the matter of getting right with God, find themselves unable to repent at that time. A wise counsellor, Dr Charles Hodge, one said, “It is important that when we come to die, we have nothing to do but die.” Such a one can wait calmly the coming of death, knowing that his sins are forgiven and that all will be well.