I was listening to Dr. John Phillips this morning and he quoted a poem from Robert Laidlaw’s booklet “The Reason Why” to press the urgency of the gospel call:
“Tomorrow,” he promised his conscience,
Tomorrow I mean to believe,
Tomorrow I’ll think as I ought to,
Tomorrow the Saviour receive.
Tomorrow I’ll conquer those habits
Which hold me from heaven away.”
But ever God’s Spirit insisted
One word, and one only – TODAY.Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow,
Thus day after day it went on.
Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow,
‘Till youth, like a vision, had gone;
And age, with its passions had written
The message of fate on his brow;
And out of the shadows came Death
With his pitiless syllable – NOW.
