Too Late

On a Wednesday night during service, one of the members of our local Church, Brother Cartwright, stood and told something that happened to him on election night as he and his wife worked at a polling precinct helping with the election. He felt strongly everyone at church should hear this story and think about it as it relates spiritually. I believe it is a lesson not just for our local congregation, but for us all...
 
Too Late
From a story by Ben Cartwright, Mtn. View, AR
 
Tuesday, November 4, 2008 two young ladies came in to vote at a rural polling place in Stone County, Arkansas. It was 7:32 p.m. Two minutes past closing time. They wanted to participate, but it was too late. The electronic ballot machine had shut off automatically at the appointed time (without man’s intervention) and the machine had begun counting the votes of the voters (again without man’s intervention). There wasn’t anything the precinct workers could do about it, nothing that could be done to stop it, because it was too late. The sad thing was that the girls had been at home all day long doing nothing. They COULD have gotten out and voted earlier. They had ample opportunity, even during early voting in the weeks prior to the election. Regardless...it was now 7:32 p.m. and it was too late!
 
Jesus is coming for a people whose names are recorded in the Book of Life, who have made themselves ready BEFORE His appearing. Someday SOON, without man preventing it, the TIME for salvation will be past and the rapture will upon us. At that time, people will wish they had presented themselves to the Lord, repented and accepted salvation… made a change while there was still time, but THEN it will be too late. 
 
Have YOU made preparations? Look around you...Time is at hand! Do you see the signs...they are unmistakeable. Don't allow the devil to trick you into thinking you have all the time in the world. Soon, it will be TOO LATE…
 
Matthew 25:1-13, “Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him. Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out. But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves. And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut. Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not. Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.”