C.H. Spurgeon – Words of Warning for Daily Living

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April 19

Those Who Take Not Warning
"Well," says another, "but I thought I had time enough; you do not want me, sir, to be
religious in my youth, do you? I am a lad, and may I not have a little frolic and sow
my wild oats as well as anybody else?" Well — yes, yes; but, at the same time, the
best place for frolic that I know of, is where a Christian lives; the finest happiness in
all the world is the happiness of a child of God. You may have your pleasures — oh,
yes! you shall have them doubled and trebled, if you are a Christian. You shall not
have things that worldlings call pleasures, but you shall have some that are a
thousand times better. But only look at that sorrowful picture. There, far away in the
dark gulf of woe, lies a young man, and he cries, "Ah, I meant to have repented when
I was out of my apprenticeship, and died before my time was up." "Ah!" says another
by his side, "and I thought, whilst I was a journeyman, that when I came to be a
master, I would then think of the things of Christ, but I died before I had got money
enough to start for myself." And then a merchant behind wails with bitter woe, and
says: "Ah! I thought I would be religious when I had got enough to retire on, and live
in the country; then I should have time to think of God, when I had got all my children
married out, and my concerns settled about me, but here I am shut up in hell; and
now, what are all my delays worth, and what is all the time I gained for all the paltry
pleasures in the world? Now I have lost my soul over them."