There is a poor prisoner in a cell. His hair is all matted, over his eyes. A few weeks ago the judge put on the black cap, and commanded that he should be taken to the place from where he came, and hung by the neck until dead. The poor wretch has his heart broken within him, while he thinks of the gallows, and of the drop, and of after-death. Oh! who can tell how his heart is rent and racked, while he thinks of leaving all, and going he knows not where! There is a man there, sound asleep on a bed. He has been asleep there these two days, and under his pillow he has that prisoner's free pardon…Why, if I had had that man's pardon, I would have been there, if I rode on the wings of lightning to get at him, if I had so sweet a message to carry, and such a poor heavy heart to carry it to. But we are that man, that brute, who is sound asleep, with a free pardon under our pillow, while that poor wretch's heart is breaking with dismay! Ah! But we still have the opportunity today. Side by side we will sit or our paths will cross with someone who needs to hear the Good News. God has pardoned him, and intends that we should tell him that the gate is open. Charles Spurgeon Let us awake today and “Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.” (Luke 14:23) GiGi❤️
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