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25-Pack of Large-Print Gospel Tracts, 11-Point Type
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Some rabbits run and run, and some run and hide. You can guess which are more likely to survive. Are you helplessly and hopelessly running, or are you happily hiding? A true Texas tale.
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When I was nine years old, we lived on a cattle ranch in the western part of Texas. There were many coyotes on the prairies, so my father bought a beautiful, purebred greyhound to protect the calves. We called him Blackie. When he wasn’t chasing coyotes, he liked to chase rabbits.
It was fun to watch Blackie chase a jackrabbit. The rabbit would lay back both ears and run for his life with the dog at his heels.
I noticed that jackrabbits would never run into places of safety. There were many badger holes, haystacks, granaries and even hollow logs the jackrabbits could have hidden in, but they never ran into them for protection.
Years have passed. I am a man now, and I have come to know the Lord Jesus as my Savior. I have often thought of these two rabbits—the long-legged, proud, self-reliant jackrabbit that never seeks a place of safety, and the timid little cottontail that immediately runs to a safe hiding place at the first alarm. They are pictures of the two classes of sinners—for we are all sinners. Some people say, “I’ll take my chance. I have a few sins, but I’m not so bad. I’m not afraid.” So, like the jackrabbit, they try to “outrun” their sin, Satan, and the judgment of God. They depend on improvement and good deeds, and their self-reliance keeps them from running to the place of safety in the Savior of sinners, the Lord Jesus Christ. They do not want to think that their sins will catch up with them. But the Bible says, “Be sure your sin will find you out.” Numbers 32:23. “God requireth that which is past.” Ecclesiastes 3:15. “God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing.” Ecclesiastes 12:14.
Do you realize that God has “appointed a day, in the which He will judge the world in righteousness” (Acts 17:31)? “Where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?” 1 Peter 4:18. “It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.” Hebrews 10:31.
The good news of salvation is that God Himself has provided a place of safety for the sinner. It is His own blessed Son whom He sent into this world to be your Savior and mine: “The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin.” 1 John 1:7.
If you are still in your sins, we hope that you will see the terrible danger of continuing in your sins without Christ and that you will come to Him for mercy and safety. He is the Rock of Ages; and death, hell and judgment cannot touch a soul that is safe in Christ.
Today the Savior waits with loving, outstretched arms, saying to you, “Come unto Me.” Will you accept His invitation right now to come to Him—to run to Him for safety?