“Aw, come on, get on ... you can do it! It’s not very steep.” Beth’s cousins were trying to teach her to ride a two-wheel bike down their long, bumpy driveway. She was only six years old, and it didn’t look very easy for her first ride. The boys finally talked her into it, and Beth slowly climbed on as they held her steady.
“Just hang on and go! Turn the handlebars the way you want to go,” they all yelled as they ran along beside her.
Beth bumped along slowly, and then as she picked up speed she started to giggle. This is fun! Why was I ever scared? she thought. Brushing under tree branches and splashing through a puddle, she passed the house halfway down the hill.
Now Beth began to think about how she was going to stop at the bottom. She had left her cousins far behind, so there was no one to help her. Here came another puddle ... then another branch to duck under ... then ... oh no! ... the end of the driveway! “HOW DO I STOP?” yelled Beth.
But it was too late! She disappeared over the edge of the driveway and landed right smack in the middle of an old blackberry patch full of stickers!
“Ouch!” Those stickers hurt! She even had some in her mouth. Beth’s rough ride landed her right in the middle of painful trouble.
Are you on a downhill ride through life? Do you know how it will end? Are you on your way to a lost eternity? Maybe you are going along having fun, unaware of what’s ahead. Halfway down the hill Beth was cruising along having fun, but she didn’t know there was a blackberry patch at the bottom, and she didn’t know how to stop. “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death” (Proverbs 14:12). You need to be warned that a lost eternity in the lake of fire is ahead for you if you go on through life without trusting the Lord Jesus Christ to forgive your sins. He loves you and personally died for you on the cross so He could wash away your sins with His own blood. “In whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins” (Ephesians 1:7).
Don’t wait any longer. Tell Jesus today from your heart that you are truly sorry for your sins and want Him to wash you clean from all of them. Your ride may be almost over, and you want to be sure of a future home in heaven with Jesus.
MEMORY VERSE: “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.” Proverbs 14:12
ML-12/05/2010