DAILY?READINGS: Numbers 18; Proverbs 15; 2 Peter 2
Abraham said, Son, remember. Luke 16:25
Visiting Brussels I was struck by a poster of a directional road sign bearing the word “Remember” in large letters. If one did not remember in time, the road would take you to the wrong destination. It reminded me of the pitiful existence of the beggar compared to the luxury of the rich man in the above passage, and of what Abraham said to the rich man when he found himself in eternity and doomed—“Son, remember”. Many in a lost eternity will remember invitations to accept God’s way of salvation but left it too late and thus found themselves at a horrible destination. —Brian Powlesland
Memory like an adder stingeth, all the wasted past upbringeth;
Could I but that viper strangle, half my miseries would be o’er,
But around my heart it coileth, every frantic effort foileth,
Will it quit me nevermore? Echo answers, nevermore. —Horatius Bonar