The following striking illustration of the effect of delay in serving
God is by James Drummond, in “Parables and Pictures”:
There was once a horse that ran away in the morning and did not
return till evening. When the master upbraided him, the horse
replied, “But here am I, returned safe and sound. You have your
horse.” “True,” answered the master, “but my field is unplowed.”
If a man turns to God in old age, God has the man, but He has
been defrauded of the man’s work.
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