“Seek the Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, and He will have mercy on him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.” Isaiah 55:6-7

God calls upon us – even pleads with us – to turn to Him before it is too late. The hour of our death and the Last Day and Christ’s return in judgment are drawing ever closer. Then it will be too late to repent; the hour of our judgment will have come!

While there is yet time – while God is still near to us with His gracious offer of forgiveness and life in Christ – He would have us repent of our sinful thoughts and ways and turn to Him for forgiveness.

After speaking of the blessing of confessing sin and being pardoned and forgiven by God, David writes: “For this cause everyone who is godly shall pray to You In a time when You may be found; surely in a flood of great waters they shall not come near him” (Psalm 32:6).

If we do not repent and look to the Lord Jesus, the floodwaters of God’s judgment will wash us away with all the wicked into the eternal torments of hell. But, if we repent and receive God’s mercy and forgiveness through faith in Christ Jesus, God’s judgment will not touch us.

When we, by the gracious working of the Holy Spirit, turn from our sins to Christ and His cross, God promises to be merciful unto us and abundantly pardon. No matter how great our sin, God promises to forgive all because of the holy life and bitter sufferings and death of His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, in our stead.

God wants you, and each and every one of us, to repent of our sins now and turn to Him for pardon and forgiveness before it is too late!

“Seek the Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, and He will have mercy on him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.”

O LORD God, by the gracious working of Your Spirit, grant that we live in continual repentance and be found trusting in Jesus Christ our Savior when our earthly life comes to a close. We ask this for the sake of Christ’s innocent sufferings and death in our place and His glorious resurrection. Amen.

[Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.]