A moment - how brief - one of the smallest measurements of time and yet years of agony and remorse can flow from a moment’s folly, a moment’s thoughtlessness. It takes only a moment to pull a trigger or detonate a bomb but that moment can result in a life ruined, a body irreparably maimed. Much of the carnage on the roads is the result of a moment’s carelessness. Moments can be momentous.
My friend, I beg of you to take a few moments from the busy schedule of life and consider what can happen in a moment.
Death takes place in a moment. The illness may be protracted, the weakness may have lasted for months, but "in a moment shall they die, …" Job 34.20. How frail we are; regardless of our physical strength and health, so much can happen in a moment to change all this. Have you considered that some moment will be your last and suddenly, swiftly you will find yourself in Heaven or hell? A moment thereafter is too late — nothing and no one can bring you back from that changeless abode. You may have lived for many years but eventually that moment will be reached when life’s clock suddenly stops and your soul flees to its eternal destiny. Do not waste the precious moments, so quickly passing, which God so kindly gives you, in order to be saved and be prepared for that moment which, for most people, arrives unexpectedly and unannounced.
At His return, Christ will take all the saved from earth "in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye," 1Corinthians 15.52. Only those who are ready will hear that summoning shout which will muster the myriads of redeemed ones, "For the Lord Himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout, … and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord," 1Thessalonians 4.16,17. Dear reader, are you saved?
For ‘twill be too late to seek Him
When at last you sadly find,
That the saints have all been taken
And that you are left behind.
Just a moment, but the door will then be closed against you forever and every hope of salvation will then be gone eternally. Do not delay; in view of the astounding rapidity of that great event, make preparation NOW and know that all is well should Christ come before you finish reading this article.
You can be saved in a moment and yet it will make all the difference for eternity. After that precious and memorable moment there will be no possibility of you being in hell, the dark past will be blotted out and your name will be inscribed in the Lamb’s Book of Life, that accurate register of the saved. Salvation is not a process, nor is it a reward for a life of good works — it is something that happens quickly and yet its effects and benefits are eternal.
All this is gloriously possible because God’s Son has been to earth and has died upon the Cross that you might be in Heaven with Him eternally. In Luke 2.38 we read of an aged believer called Anna who came into the Temple and found the child Jesus with His mother and Joseph. "And she coming in that instant gave thanks likewise unto the Lord, and spake of Him to all them that looked for redemption …" Why had He come? It was, my friend, that you ‘might go at last to Heaven, saved by His precious blood.’ Some thirty-three years later that same blessed One who had been lifted up in the arms of Simeon on that occasion in the Temple, was lifted up on a rough Cross. "Who His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree," 1 Peter 2.24. All that was required to save souls eternally was accomplished by Him before His lifeless body was taken down from the Cross. God demands no more — what more do you need? Why not then, this very moment trust this blessed and only Saviour of sinners?