Don’t you just love it when television commercials, for whatever product, inform us their offer is for a limited time only? Just how dull do they think we are? Of course it is for a limited time only. Everything is for a limited time only. When we are born “for a limited time only” should be printed on our birth certificates. Even the rock of Gibraltar is there for a limited time. One would have to be very unobservant if one looked at a map of the Atlantic Ocean and didn’t notice South America and Africa used to fit together.
Of course I understand they are trying to motivate us to hurry in and open our wallets. They want us to think their March Madness Sale will never be repeated. However, it will. It will become the April Shower Sale which actually might be better because not enough people showed up for the March event.
Preachers do this. The offer to come to Jesus is available for a limited time only. They are right. When we stop breathing the offer goes away. Now that I have said that I do want to point out that Revelation 22 indicates there will be a time when the offer is no more. Just as the door of Noah’s ark was ultimately closed Scripture indicates this existence that we now know is for a limited time only. Some might be tempted to think, “Okay, I can wait.” True, but why? Why live a substandard life when Jesus offers the best to begin now. The benefits of citizenship in God’s Kingdom are not just a future thing. They begin now. And best of all they are for an unlimited time.
Written by Roger Bothwell on April 3, 2012
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