Maggie's Farm

From a Charles Simeon sermon, as quoted in a piece at Scriptorium:

Permit me, then, to address you as dying persons, and to ask what you will think of these things when standing on the brink and precipice of eternity? Now you can speculate, and dispute, and speak with confidence about the justness of your views. Now you can discuss these matters as if it were of little moment what your sentiments are, or what is the ground of your affiance. But if you hold fast any of the foregoing delusions, you will not find them so satisfactory in a dying hour as you now imagine. Doubts… will arise in your mind…

Would you but place yourselves where you must all very shortly be, on a dying bed, we should not find it so difficult to convince you that it is better to trust in the righteousness of Christ, which is commensurate with all the demands of law and justice and adequate to the wants of the whole world, than to be trusting in any respect to any poor defective righteousness of your own.

Life itself is a School of Humility. At some point, we all will need to get out of our own boats, and He will be there, waiting for us with open arms.

By coincidence, A Slower Pace posted this from Max Lucado on death and rebirth.