April 1 Evening Devotional | It Is Time to Seek the Lord | Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon

Evening, April 1 | “It is time to seek the Lord.” —Hosea 10:12 (NASB)

This Evening's Scripture Reading: Hosea 10:12 (NASB)

“Sow with a view to righteousness,
Reap in accordance with kindness;
Break up your fallow ground,
For it is time to seek the Lord
Until He comes to rain righteousness on you.”

Devotional Video Transcript:

This month of April is said to derive its name from the Latin verb aperio, which signifies to open, because all the buds and blossoms are now opening, and we have arrived at the gates of the flowery season.

If you are yet unsaved, may your heart, in accord with the universal awakening of nature, be opened to receive the Lord. Every blossoming flower warns you that it is time to seek the Lord; be not out of tune with nature, but let your heart bud and bloom with holy desires. Do you tell me that the warm blood of youth leaps in your veins? Then, I entreat you, give your vigor to the Lord. It was my unspeakable happiness to be called in early youth, and I praise the Lord every day for it. Salvation is priceless, let it come when it may, but oh, an early salvation has a double value in it!

Young men and maidens, since you may perish before you reach your prime, “It is time to seek the Lord.” You who feel the first signs of decay, quicken your pace: that hollow cough, that hectic flush, are warnings which you must not trifle with; with you it is indeed time to seek the Lord. Did I observe a little grey mingled with your once luxurious locks of hair? Years are flying by, and death is drawing nearer by hasty marches, let each return of spring arouse you to set your house in order.

Dear one, if you are now advanced in life, let me entreat and implore you to delay no longer. There is a day of grace for you now — be thankful for that, but it is a limited season and grows shorter every time that clock ticks. Here in this silent chamber, on this first night of another month, I speak to you as best I can by paper and ink, and from my inmost soul, as God’s servant, I lay before you this warning, “It is time to seek the Lord.” Do not make light of this, it may be your last call from destruction, the final syllable from the lip of grace.

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