Lost Man's Faith

"The faithful ambassador in bonds stood before the governor, and pronounced solemn and faithful words concerning righteousness, temperance, and coming judgment. As the prisoner spoke, the judge trembled. How unusual! It was something new—something quite the reverse of what is ordinarily witnessed in judgment halls. "Felix trembled." It would have been well if his trembling for himself had led to his trusting in Jesus. But, alas! he contented himself with the faith of a "more convenient season." which, so far as the record informs us, never came. It is vain for a man to speak of a "more convenient season," inasmuch as he is sure never to have it. There will always be something occurring to hinder his looking seriously at the great question of his eternal destiny—something to render it inconvenient. He may "tremble" under some powerful appeal on the momentous subject of "judgment to come," but the world, in its varied forms, will come in and render it an inconvenient season, and thus he goes on from day to day, and from year to year, until death comes and ushers him into that place of everlasting misery. "where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched." God's time is now. "Now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation." "To-day if ye will hear His voice, harden not your hearts.”
Look now at Felix's hope. "He hoped also that money should have been given him of Paul." What a thought! Felix could send for Paul "often," with the hope of getting money, but as to righteousness. Temperance, and judgment to come he had no "convenient season" for them at all.