A time is coming when the warning and pleading will stop. The people who kept turning away from God's messengers won't get another chance. That day is closer than most of us like to believe. The Bible shows this pattern more than once. Noah spent years telling people the flood was coming. They laughed and went on with their lives. Then God shut the door of the ark, and their chance was gone. Jesus told a story about ten women waiting for a wedding. Five were ready. Five were not. When the door closed, the unprepared ones were left outside with no way in. Those stories are not just old history. They show how God works. He warns us. He waits for us. He gives us time. Then the clock runs out. Right now the door is still open. God is still sending people to speak the truth about Jesus. He is still calling through His Word and through that quiet pull in your heart that something is not right. But that calling will not go on forever. One day the warnings will end, and the people who said no again and again will face what they chose. If you are reading this, you still have today. Jesus already paid the price so you can come in. He is not waiting to scold you. He is waiting to save you. Do not put it off until the door is shut. Turn to Him while you still can.

I can't take credit for the good in my life. It came from God's grace. He saved me when I couldn't save myself. He keeps changing me when I still fall short. Every good thing I have traces back to Him, not to something I did myself. Paul put it this way in 1 Corinthians 15:10: "By the grace of God I am what I am." That keeps me humble and thankful at the same time. It also gives me hope, because the same grace that started the work will finish it.