Too late! - All The Good Seed Daily Devotionals for 2024

Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us! But he answered and said, Assuredly, I say to you, I do not know you.
Matthew 25: 11.12.

Too late!
Robert Scott wanted to be the first to reach the South Pole. After starting out on his expedition, he learned that Roald Amundsen was also on his way to achieve the same aim. A tense race between the two had started.

The two Polar explorers chose different routes and means of transport. Scott banked on motor sledges and ponies; Amundsen relied on huskies. It soon transpired that Scott had made the wrong choice. The motor sledges failed, and the ponies sank in the snow. Little wonder that Amundsen and His companions reached their goal five weeks earlier. On the 14th December 1911 he hoisted the Norwegian flag at the South Pole.

As Scott approached the South Pole, the blood in his veins froze: he was not the first there, he was too late! The immense exertions that he had undergone had been in vain. Feeling depressed, his honour offended, he and his comrades started the journey back, from which none survived.

Those who have not received Jesus Christ as their Saviour will one day share Scott's experience. After death it will be too late for them to do so. Who can imagine their horror and feelings, when in eternity they realise that it is too late - too late to be converted, to late to be reconciled to God, too late for heaven. Today is the 14th December: you could ensure reaching a better goal than Amundsen did 110 years ago.

Today‘s reading: Ezekiel 36: 16 - 38 · Psalms 136: 13 - 26