Now Is The Time---

If ever there was a time when we needed faith and spiritual enlightenment, it is now.  Those who are watching unto prayer and are searching the Scriptures daily with an earnest desire to know and do the will of God will not be led astray by any of the deceptions of Satan.  They alone will discern the pretext which cunning men adopt to beguile and ensnare.  So much time and attention are bestowed upon the world, upon dress and eating and drinking, that no times is left for prayer and the study of the Scriptures.

We want the truth on every point, and we must search for it as for hid treasures.  Dishes of fables are presented to us on every hand, and men choose to believe error rather than truth, because the acceptance of the truth involves a cross.  Self must be denied; self must be crucified.  Therefore Satan presents to them an easier way by making void the law of God.  When God lets man have his own way, it is the darkest hour of his life.  For a willful, disobedient child to be left to have his own way, to follow the bent of his own mind and gather the dark clouds of God's judgment about him, is a terrible thing.

But Satan has his agents who are too proud to repent and who are constantly at work to tear down the cause of Jehovah and trample it under their feet. What a day of sorrow and despair when these meet their work with all its burden of results!  Souls who might have been saved to Jesus Christ have been lost through their teachings and influence.

Christ died for them that they might have life.  He opened before them the way whereby they light, through His merits, keep the law of God.  Christ says, 'I know they works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it' Revelation 3:8.  How hard men work to close that door; but they are not able.  John's testimony is, 'And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in His temple the ark of His testament' Revelation 11:19.  Beneath the mercy seat, within the ark, were the two tables of stone, containing the law of Jehovah.  God's faithful ones saw the light that shone forth to them from the law, to be given to the world.  And now Satan's intense activity is to close that door of light; but Jesus says that no man can shut it.  Men will turn from the light, denounce it, and despise it, but it still shines forth in clear, distinct rays to cheer and bless all who will see it.

God's children will have a fierce conflict with the adversary of souls, and it will become more exceedingly bitter as we approach the close of the conflict.  But the Lord will help those who stand in defense of His truth." F&W 46.

(Grandma Joan's remarks)  Do you believe, with all that's going on in this world today that 'now is the time' to give our hearts to Jesus and study and pray for ourselves and those of our friends and family that we will all be ready and waiting for Christ when He comes to gather us to Himself?  After studying the Scriptures and reading this little book, I believe that now is really the time to get serious about our lives and what path we will choose to walk in. How about you?  Grandma Joan