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:<\/p>\n
“Tomorrow,” he promised his conscience,
\nTomorrow I mean to believe,
\nTomorrow I’ll think as I ought to,
\nTomorrow the Saviour receive.
\nTomorrow I’ll conquer those habits
\nWhich hold me from heaven away.”
\nBut ever God’s Spirit insisted
\nOne word, and one only – TODAY.<\/p>\nTomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow,
\nThus day after day it went on.
\nTomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow,
\n‘Till youth, like a vision, had gone;
\nAnd age, with its passions had written
\nThe message of fate on his brow;
\nAnd out of the shadows came Death
\nWith his pitiless syllable – NOW.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"tve_updated_post":"","tve_custom_css":"","tve_user_custom_css":"","tve_globals":{},"tcb2_ready":1,"tcb_editor_enabled":0,"tve_landing_page":"","_tve_header":"","_tve_footer":""},"categories":[335,320],"tags":[343,506,507],"class_list":["post-6377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-illustration","tag-gospel","tag-poem","tag-urgency"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/time.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6377"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8119,"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6377\/revisions\/8119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}