The King's business often requires slowness. That may be the opposite of what you have been taught by the tradition of men, but that is what the Word of God teaches. If you rub your eyes at this statement and say that your memory surely serves you well that "the king's business requires haste" is a Bible quotation, you are in error.

Paul wrote to the Corinthians, "Wherefore we labor, that whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him" (2 Cor. 5:9). Brookes translated it, "Wherefore we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well-pleasing to him." Rotherham translates it, "Wherefore also, we are ambitious, whether at home or away from home, to be well-pleasing to him." The emphatic Diaglot renders it, "Therefore we are very ambitious, whether being at home or away from home, to be acceptable to him."

The Word of God has a great deal to say about second chances. This does not mean that any man is to have a second chance of salvation, after death has removed him from earth's scene. The Bible distinctly says in John 8, "If ye die in your sins, whither I go ye cannot come, and if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sin." This shows us that the issues of eternity are settled in this life.