"Come now, you who say, 'Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit'; whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. Instead you ought to say, 'If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.' But now, such boasting is evil. Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin." James 4:13-17

God is patient. He waits for us to come to Him. He often gives us opportunity after opportunity, chance after chance. Many people put off committing themselves to the Lord because they always feel like there will be another time, another chance. It is a foolish risk. I remember ministering in a church one night that forever proved to me that “now is the time of salvation.” We were in the middle of giving an invitation when a group of teenagers got up and started to leave the service. Several of them slipped out the back door, but one boy turned around and came down to the altar instead. I never saw the other boys come back in again. I thought about the choices each one had made, some to leave and go on in their own ways, one to stay and give his life to Christ.After church was over they had a time of food and fellowship. While we were all eating a police car drove up. The boys who had left the service had been in a car accident; all were killed. I thought of the one boy who stayed. Not only was he saved spiritually, but also physically. God gave each of them one last chance. Each boy had the opportunity to make a decision, right or wrong. Had the boys who left headed in the opposite direction, to the altar instead of the parking lot, their lives would have been so different. In another church we ministered in, a woman came to the altar just at the end of the service. God did a wonderful work in her life. A week later we received word that this woman, her husband, and her child had been in an accident the day after that service,  and lost their lives. Our service was the last time this woman was ever in church. She had choices to make, and she made them. She allowed God to do the work He needed to in her life. She was ready to meet the Savior. We never know when we’ll have our last chance. We never know when God will call us to stand before Him. We need to be ready. When we stand before the Father we can’t say, “Please, let me have just one more chance!” For everything there is a season.  Now is the time for salvation! Now is the time to make things right between others and ourselves, to make things right with God! Now is the time to live as you should! Don’t miss your last chance! Listen when God speaks!

"...'In an acceptable time I have heard you, And in the day of salvation I have helped you.' Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation. 2 Corinthians 6:2