Or it may be that our intentions were good—we realized our foolishness and we decided to make the about turn, but we put it off, we delayed. The Psalmist said, you remember—"I made haste, I delayed And that is the secret of sucsful performance. There is danger in delay. Have we not alf experienced U? You delayed getting up and fell asleep and missed an important appointment. You put of speaking a word of encouragement or reproof, and it was too late. You delayed your donation, and the needy died of hunger. Why then delay in this most important of all decisions? If we wait a little longer, we may be quite certain that it will only be harder to change as the time goes on. And then life' is uncertain, at any moment, for us the day of grace may end. If we are in the way of sin, the turning time for each one of us is now, it brooks no delay.
Let us have our self examination during these days of Lent. Let us be honest and fearless, Then if we find, as we shall find, that we are falling very far short of what we should be; if we find that we are outside the Father's hot ise in thoughts and sympathies; if our feet are set toward that far countr y of separation from God and holine: is; then let us make haste and delay not, but turn while we may.
'Then we too shall po able to say—"I thought on my vrays and turned my feet unto thy testimonies....I made haste I delayed. not to keep thy commandments.'
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