This is how many of you are – sleeping in jeopardy of your souls. Satan is standing over you, the law is ready to smite you, and vengeance is prepared. Even Providence seems to say, “Shall I smite him? I will smite him but this once, and he will never wake again.” Jesus intervenes and cries, “Not yet, vengeance, restrain yourself!” Even now the spear is quivering! “Not yet! Spare the sleeper yet one more year in the hope that he may yet awake from this long sleep of sin.”
