Jerry was on a long car trip with his aunt and older cousins. He was going to see his Grandpa and Grandma in Canada. They were driving on a windy road alongside a beautiful river, but Jerry was getting a little bored. He had nothing to do, so he decided to count how many crosses he saw by the side of the road.
Maybe you know that when you see a cross by the side of a road, it marks the place where someone died in a car accident. Jerry and his relatives had just entered the state of Montana when they passed a big billboard, reminding drivers and passengers to wear seatbelts. They all checked to be sure everyone had his seatbelt on. They didn’t want to end up adding to the number of crosses at the side of the road!
As he counted, Jerry saw tall crosses and short crosses. Some had names on them and some had flowers or flags beside them. In one place Jerry saw four crosses in a group, and he wondered if a whole carload of people had crashed there.
All along the windy river road for fifty miles, until they reached the next big town, Jerry counted crosses and drew a black line on a piece of paper for each one. Can you count the number of crosses he saw? Did you come up with the number sixty-two? That’s how many crosses he counted in fifty miles! It made them all sad to think that so many people had died beside that beautiful river. And probably not one of those people expected to die on that road.
The Bible tells us that for each one of us there is “a time to be born, and a time to die” (Ecclesiastes 3:22A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; (Ecclesiastes 3:2)). Now each of you probably knows exactly what day you were born; that would be your birthday. But do you know what day you will die? No, not one of us knows that. That’s why it is so important to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ as your Saviour right now! Then you will know that your soul is ready to go to be with Jesus in heaven if you were suddenly taken in death or if the Lord Jesus comes for all believers. Either one could happen this very day! But are you ready? Jerry is. He told his aunt that he knows the Lord Jesus as His very own Saviour. Be sure you know He is your Saviour too!
ML-05/01/2005