HESITATION

Another Musick-al Note:   #  43

    “ON THE PLAINS OF HESITATION LIE THE BLACKENED BONES OF MILLIONS, WHO, AT      

              THE THRESHOLD OF VICTORY SAT DOWN TO REST, AND RESTING, DIED.” 

                                (Now read it again slowly and meditatively).

        The scope of the above saying is almost without limit in its applications to life.  It is true in the field of science, medicine, engineering, business, farming and many endeavors.  On the verge of victory, battles have been forfeited, scientists have given up in despair, engineers have been defeated by problems, businesses have failed and crops have been lost.  True, these losses have been in staggering proportions.  The cost has been far above human comprehension.  Yet these things mentioned in this paragraph are all of a temporal nature.

        On the higher level of spiritual living, hesitation is increasingly catastrophic because of the eternity that is to come.  Obedience to the Gospel of Christ is of great importance because it isolates us from the wrath of God (2 Thessalonians 1:8-9).  Continued obedience is also necessary for the day of His coming is always imminent (Matthew 24:36).  “Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in all holy living and godliness.” (2 Peter 3:11).  The tragedy of all tragedies is for one to lose his soul (Matthew16:24-26) for this is an eternal loss.  Millions are they who have never begun the way to life eternal because they do not know God and His Son (John 17:3). There are those who have ‘heard’ but listening to false teachers, never enter the ‘way’ (Matthew 7:13-14, 21-27). Many begin the ‘way’ but soon draw away after other things (Matthew 13:1-23) and no longer strive for the way of godliness.  The correct decision is to seek first His kingdom (Matthew 6:33) and remain faithful in obedience.  We must not neglect God’s gift of eternal life for the pleasures of sin that last only a short time on earth (Hebrews 11:25).  Let us strive to achieve without hesitation the life that is promised in the eternal abode found only in Christ.

                                                                                         Gordon Musick