Opportunity in Christian preaching emphasizes the importance of recognizing and seizing God-given moments for action or decision, as these chances are fleeting and may not return (Ephesians 5:16). Illustrations often depict opportunity as transient, like a passing breeze or a quickly closing door, underscoring the urgency to act promptly and faithfully.
Seizing opportunity promptly is crucial because it cannot be caught again later.
Opportunity has hair in front; behind she is bald; if you seize her by the forelock, you may hold her; but, if suffered to escape, not Jupiter himself can catch her again. From the Latin.
Opportunity is like a breeze that must be acted on immediately or it will be lost.
Opportunity is like a favoring breeze springing up around a sailing-vessel. If the sails be all set, the ship is wafted onward to its port; if the sailors are asleep or ashore, the breeze may die again, and when they would go on they cannot: their vessel stands as idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean. U. Mag.
Failing to use opportunity leads to loss and regret.
Opportunity is like a strip of sand which stretches around a seaside cove. The greedy tide is lapping up the sand. The narrow strip will quickly become impassable; and then how sad the fate of the thoughtless children who are now playing and gathering shells and seaweed inside the cove! Union Magazine.
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