I read… the words sink in. The reality of our situation as a church sets in. If only we could be more awake!
“Eternity stretches before us. The curtain is about to be lifted.
“What are we thinking of, that we cling to our selfish love of ease, while all around us souls are perishing?
Have our hearts become utterly callous?
Can we not see and understand that we have a work to do in behalf of others?
My brethren and sisters, are you among those who, having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not?
Is it in vain that God has given you a knowledge of His will?
Is it in vain that He has sent you warning after warning of the nearness of the end?
Do you believe the declarations of His word concerning what is coming upon the world?
Do you believe that God’s judgments are hanging over the inhabitants of the earth?
How, then, can you sit at ease, careless and indifferent?” –Testimonies, vol. 9, pp. 26, 27. {ChS 80.9}
How can we? Careless, indifferent, sitting in our comfortable chair, waiting for Christ to return! What kind of unfaithfulness is this? Will we not go out and do what God has commanded us to do?
“Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.” Â Matthew 28:19,20
We have the command. God has commanded us. What will we do? What will you do?