“Then you will know that I am the Lord.”

One would have thought that if the glorious Lord condescended to send His servants to speak to men of the way of salvation, all mankind would delight to hear the message. And we would reasonably conclude that people would immediately run together in eager crowds to catch every word, and would at once be obedient to the heavenly command. But, alas, it has not been so. Man’s opposition to God is too deep, too stubborn for that.

People display great ingenuity in making excuses for rejecting the message of God’s love; they display marvelous skill not in seeking salvation, but in fashioning reasons for refusing it. They are dexterous in avoiding divine grace and in securing their own ruin. In delaying themselves into Hell. C. H. Spurgeon (1834 – 1892), adapted.