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“Behold, now is ‘a favorable time,’ behold, now is ‘a day of salvation.’”

—2 Corinthians 6:2

“Now” is always the favorable time and the day of salvation, because now is all we ever have. If we will not come now, when? If we will not serve now, when?

Our human nature says we will do so in the future, but that future will be our now when we get there, and we will keep saying the same thing. We can only commit and serve the Lord now.

He is here with us always, ever ready to receive and save; it is not his will that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance (2 Peter 3:9). But we never know when our soul will be required of us (Luke 12:20). This current “now” is the only one we’re guaranteed.

If we believe the Lord’s salvation is true and that we need to repent and follow, we must believe all else Christ said. We must know that it is worth repenting now and that he is worth following now. Jesus came to save the world (John 3:17), to give us the power to become the children of God (John 1:12), to give us abundant life (John 10:10), and to live in this current world with his overcoming power (1 John 5:4). He wants to give us not only an eternity of salvation, but a life that’s worth living now—one full of meaning, hope, and purpose.

Tomorrow is not the day of salvation. Today is. This moment we’re living in can be the turning point from which we begin to follow him in every now from here to eternity.

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