Dear Friends,
Those words, “Look ahead” are good counsel both for driving your automobile and for living your life. You must never become so focused on the few feet just ahead of you that you are unaware of what is coming down the road toward you. Unless you “look ahead” you will not be prepared for possible difficulty. That’s the message of today’s devotional. God bless you.

Because of Calvary,
John Janney

• Hebrews 9:27-28 (ESV)

  27 And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment, 28 so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.

WHAT THEN?

“After the joys of earth,

After its song of mirth,

After its hours of light,

After its dreams so bright ―

What then?

Only an empty name,

Only a weary frame,

Only a conscience smart,

Only an aching heart,

After this empty name,

After this weary frame,

After this conscience smart,

After this aching heart,

What then?

Only a sad farewell,

To a world loved too well,

Only a silent bed,

With the forgotten dead.

What then?

Oh, then ― the judgment throne,

Then all the woes that dwell

Oh then ― the last hope ― gone!

In an eternal Hell!”

[Author unknown in Knight’s Master Book of 4,000 Illustrations compiled by Walter B. Knight, (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1956), p. 284]