Sinner, The—A Criminal – Charles Spurgeon

AT this present moment you are spared, and suffered to go about this world, but you are like a criminal in a condemned cell. The sentence has gone out against you, and only God’s longsuffering stays that gleaming axe from falling and utterly destroying you. Do you understand that? Have you really got that thought into you? There you are, just like a man to be beheaded, with your neck on the block, and the axe uplifted now, and it may fall. While I am yet speaking the axe of death may come, and you, soul and body, may be lost forever before that clock ticks again. You know this, but do you understand it? Will you try to understand it? Will you try to make it real to your thoughts? For methinks if you would there would be some hope that now you would escape from your present ruin, and lift up your heart to the great Father of mercies, and say, “Lord, save me, or I perish.”