God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)
We may expect answers to prayer, and should not be easy without them any more than we should be if we had written a letter to a friend upon important business, and had received no reply.
If there is any truth in Scripture at all, this is true - that those who stubbornly refuse to submit to the Gospel, and to love and obey Jesus Christ incur at the Last Advent an infinite and irreparable loss. They pass into a night on which no morning dawns.
