Expiration Date

 

About two months ago, my dear wife got out the milk and poured her a glass.  She always smells her food, but when she sniffed her glass of milk her head jerked back, and she made an unpleasant face.  Kathy said to me, “Taste this milk.  It smells funny.”  And she pushed the glass of milk across the table towards me.  So, do you think I was going to taste the milk after she said it smelled funny?  Absolutely not!  I pushed the glass back towards her and said, “Just pour it out if it smells bad.”  And she did.  I looked on the neck of the plastic jug and the milk was a week past its expiration date.  It was spoiled.  I’m glad that food items have an expiration date clearly printed on their container.  Hey, did you know that YOU have an expiration date?  There is a time, known only to the Lord, when each one of us reach our expiration date.  We don’t know when that time is, but the Lord does, because He knows everything.  But did you know that God has an expiration date too?!  Well, not God, but God’s grace and mercy has an expiration date.  God is merciful right now and seeking to save everyone.  Peter said in II Peter 3:9, “The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.”  But someday, at the end of time, God will judge everyone.  My sins, and the sins of each and every Christian have been judged already on the cross of Calvary.  Jesus, our dear Savior has paid for those sins.  But if you have not trusted in Jesus as you Savior, your sins will have to be paid for and you will be judged at the end of time, and what a fearful time that will be!  Read Revelation 20 and see what it will be like.  Hey, trust Jesus while he can be your Savior.  Don’t wait until He is your Judge.  Don’t wait for the expiration date of God’s mercy, because it will be the biggest mistake of your life.