A Devotional from the Pen of John Bunyan: "Why Will You Die [Spiritually]"? And Be Separated from God Eternally!

The Grim Reaper comes for us all sooner or later!

A Devotional for April 30, 2025

From the Pen of John Bunyan, author of Pilgrim's Progress

Why Will You Die?

“Say to them, ‘As I live, declares the LORD God, I have to pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live; turn back, turn back from your evil ways, for why will you die, O house of Israel?’”

Ezekiel 33: 11.

[Caution.] But sinner, if thou would indeed be saved, beware of these four things—

1. Beware of delaying repentance; delays are dangerous and damnable. They are dangerous because they harden the heart. They are damnable because their tendency is to make you outstand the time of grace (Psalm 95: 7; Hebrews [Chapters] 3-12).

2. Beware of resting in the word of the kingdom without the spirit and power of the kingdom of the gospel. For the gospel coming in word only saves nobody. For the kingdom of God or the gospel where it comes to salvation, is not in word but in power (1 Thessalonians 1: 4-6; 1 Corinthians 4: 19).

3. Take heed of living in a profession a life that is provoking to God; for that is the way to make him cast thee away in his anger.

4. Take heed that your inside and outside are alike. And both conformable to the Word of his grace. Labor to be like the living creatures which you may read of in the book of the prophet Ezekiel, whose appearance and themselves were one (Ezekiel 10: 22).

In all this, I have advertised [made known to] you not to be content without the power and Spirit of God in your hearts. For without him you partake of none of the grace of the Father or Son but will certainly miss . . . the salvation of the soul.

See some other scriptures: “He shall save the humble person” (Job 22:29). “Thou wilt save the afflicted people” (Psalm 18: 27). “He shall save the children of the needy” (Psalm 72: 4). “He shall save the souls of the needy” (Psalm 72: 13). “He will fulfill the desire of them that fear him, he also will hear their cry, and will save them” (Psalm 145: 19).