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Lost Crusader #239 The Tear At 11:59

Writer's picture: Jack LaFountainJack LaFountain

“…I fell, and tenantless my flesh remained.

 

Truth will I speak, repeat it to the living,

God’s angel took me up, and he of hell,

Shouted, ‘O thou from heaven, why dost thou robe me!

 

Thou bearest away the eternal part of him,

For one poor little tear, that takes him from me’…” 

 

These lines from Dante’s epic poem, though fiction, ring with the truth of the depth, breath, and height of God’s grace. Among Christians there are detractors as to the validity of “death bed” conversions. It should not be so, but it is nevertheless.

 

Grace does not become merited by time in service to God, nor by the ardor of our labor. Grace happens in a single moment of repentance, lasts eternally, and has one result—salvation. That God is so gracious as to accept our tears at 11:59 is testimony to His boundless love for His creation.

 

Salvation is not determined at the Judgment Seat of Christ. Salvation is granted on Earth to whosoever will receive it. Those who accept salvation at the eleventh hour receive the same salvation as those who accept at the break of day.

 

David once prayed for the Lord to restrain him from presumptuous sins. There is no sin more presumptuous than to delay repentance. God has life’s only reliable hourglass. To think we have time is to assume God’s sovereign role as timekeeper. To seek to “be as gods” has ever been the downfall of humanity.

 

Salvation is not without its earthly rewards. A long life lived for God is filled with blessings great and small. Victory snatched from the jaws of ruin has but one. In life beyond this mortal existence, we shall reap what we have sown here. The service of the saved will be justly rewarded by Christ.

 

Blessings in this life and the one to come or self-serving unrepentance. It seems a simple choice.

 




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