March 30

Conscience is God's alarm to wake the sinner up, but it can only be a witness to what it knows. If not informed of the truth, it will not sound when heresy or sin creeps in and sets fire to your soul. And if you do not wake up and quench the flames with timely repentance, you will burn forever.

Ignorance locks out the means of rescue. Friends and ministers stand outside and cannot save a burning man if he will not let them in. Neither threats nor promises are of an use if you are counseling a willfully ignorant man. He fears not the one and desires not the other. Write "Danger!" as large as you can, and paint it red; it will no more serve as a warning t a blind man than to a dumb ox.

Yet there will be times in a sinner's life when, by the grace of God's Holy Spirit, he senses the oppression of his soul and longs for deliverance. So he feels around for an avenue of escape. There are some ways which at first seem right to him, and Satan will lead him on a merry chase down one dead-end street after another to keep him off heaven's road. "Try good works," he will say. "that will lift your spirits." Or, "Make some new resolutions and promise yourself to be a better person from now on. What more could God expect from you?" But at last, exhausted and disillusioned by all his misguided meanderings, the sinner looks up to find himself right back where he started-- a slave to sin and darkness!

Our omniscienct God has known all along that the way to heaven can never be found in the dark; that is why He sent His Son as the Light of the world. There is but one safe exit from your darkened state, one way of escape-- through Jesus Christ our Lord. Let your faith join hands with His promise of eternal life for all who believe on Him, and He will lead you out of darkness and into the glorious light of the Gospel.

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