Friday August 11, 2023
John 12:35
“Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you.”
Today Jesus would speak in all earnestness to you who have postponed your conversion every time you have been called of God. He would speak to you about the greatest danger involved in living as an unconverted person.
What do you think is the greatest danger facing you? In all likelihood you fear sudden death more than anything else. It would prevent you from repenting at the very last.
But that is not the greatest danger, says Jesus. For God can ward off sudden death. But there is one danger that He cannot ward off from you. The Bible calls it hardening of the heart. This refers to the cumulative though quiet effect that seeing the light without yielding to it has upon your soul.
Hardening of the heart means that you harden yourself against your conscience, that you have convictions without following them. By so doing you first lose your capacity for following your convictions and then your faculty for possessing a conviction.
When the latter state is reached, almighty God Himself has no way of helping you.
Why are you unconverted today?
Because there was always something hindering you, something which prevented you from following your conviction.
Why do you not repent today? There is not a great deal that is keeping you from doing so.
But these little things are enough to keep you from following your convictions.
Have I not already hardened my heart, some one may ask.
No, your fear of this shows that the Spirit of God is still at work within you. But do not permit this to become a new temptation to you to postpone conversion.
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD 
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