Words from the Heart

Seek the Lord while he may be found;
call on him while he is near.

Isaiah 55:6 NIV

Call Upon the Lord

The history of telecommunications in Canada begins with telegraph companies. By 1847, the Montreal Telegraph Company was established and providing service in the Quebec City – Windsor corridor, with a link to Western Union in Detroit. In 1886, Canadian Pacific Railways Telegraphs came online as a competitor. By World War I, most of Canada’s smaller railways were in serious financial difficulty. A bailout by the federal government saw the merger of these railways into the Canadian National Railway, and their telegraph lines became the CN Telegraph Company.

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Advertisers love to put the pressure on buyers. One of their favourite lines is “get them while they last. They are selling fast and won’t be around long.” The irony is that if something is selling that well, they are going to keep producing them. Where this statement is true is when it comes to this age of grace in which we live. The Holy Spirit is at work in these days and will be until Jesus comes again. The prophet understood this and so wrote in Isaiah 55:6: “Seek the Lord while he may be found; call on him while he is near.” None of us is promised tomorrow. I’ve lost two friends recently who died suddenly. Jesus doesn’t tell us when He is coming back, but just as surely as He came the first time, He is coming again. There is a sense of urgency in this world, and so the call of Isaiah is just as strong today as it was in his day. Today, seek the Lord by faith. He is near and is waiting for you to call out to Him in faith. Today.

These have been words from the heart.
Bob Beasley