A more convenient time

Now as he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgement to come, Felix was afraid and answered, "Go away for now; when I have a convenient time I will call for you." – Acts 24.25

Poor old Felix. He didn't know how to handle this one. Paul preached and as he preached he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the coming judgement.

The preaching got Felix rattled. He was afraid. He didn't want to talk about it any more. He didn’t want to hear about righteousness, self-control, and the coming judgement.

To be honest, who would?

But instead of dealing with it Felix did what so many do. ‘Go away Paul, we can talk about this at a better time.’

That is so easy to do isn’t it? The lost don’t want to hear about those things so it is easy to say ‘we’ll talk about it later.’

But the Bible says ‘now is the accepted time, today is the day of salvation.’ There is no more convenient time. Now is the time to deal with eternal life.

But there are lessons for believers as well. We can be just as bad when there are things in our lives that we don’t want to deal with right now. We say in our hearts that we can take care of it later.

But even for us there is no more convenient time to deal with righteousness and self-control than right now.

Now is the accepted time.