He had stood on the threshold of... - All The Good Seed Daily Devotionals for 2025

The LORD is longsuffering and abundant in mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he by no means clears the guilty.
Numbers 14:18.

He had stood on the threshold of death several times. Once he had been on mountain tour in the Alps, when a thin layer of ice broke and he almost drowned in a glacier lake. Another time his yacht capsized in a storm. Thanks to the lifeboat service he was saved.

In his mid-forties leukaemia was diagnosed, but thanks to excellent medical care the disease came to a standstill. God granted him fifteen further years, until he was struck by a falling tree in a hurricane, while he was driving his car.

Why should I tell you this? It is because that man, though he was kind and friendly to everyone, had Christian believers as neighbours, one of whom regularly spoke to Him about faith in Jesus Christ. Although he had a good knowledge of the Bible, he did not see why he needed a Saviour to get things right with God.

God wanted to save that man. He warned him earnestly time and again. But that stormy day put an end to his life on earth. From one minute to the next he was called into eternity to answer before God, His Creator.

"Behold, God works all these things twice, in fact, three times with a man, to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of life" (Job 33:29.30).

"Do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?" (Romans 2:4).

Today's reading: Leviticus 23:23-44 · Psalms 69:1-12