A MAN was taking a walk along the cliffs, and reading a paper as he went along.
He was some yards from the edge of the cliffs. Above him the warm sun shone brightly, the soft turf was under his feet, and, with his head bent over his paper he walked along with his mind taken up with what he was reading.
Presently he happened to look up from his paper, and with a start stopped abruptly and just in time, for only a foot or two before, him was the edge of the cliff. He thought he had been walking parallel to the edge, but in reality he had been moving gradually and unknowingly nearer and nearer to it. He was in danger all the time, but did not know it. A few steps more, and he might have been dashed to pieces over the cliff.
Many of the boys and girls who read this paper are in danger, and do not know it. They are in danger of losing not their bodies, but their souls. Their sins are still unforgiven. They do not know and love the Lord Jesus as their own Savior, although, maybe, they are constantly hearing about Him. They feel happy and contented enough. Their play, their work, their books, their friends—all these take up their thoughts and they care little or nothing about where they are going.
You say, “Why didn’t that man look where he was going?” but I ask, Why don’t YOU look where YOU are going? We cannot trifle with God and eternity, and then expect it to be all right with us at the end. The instant that man looked where he was going and saw his danger, he stopped, and got away from the edge of the cliff. He got to know his danger in time.
While your sins are not forgiven you are on the road to everlasting ruin. Believe God, now that you are condemned, this moment, for one sin is enough to make us guilty and worthy of punishment, and so you will know your danger, and then turn to the Lord Jesus and take Him as your Savior. Remember, while still unsaved, you are in danger all the time; but after reading this, you cannot say you do not know it.
ML-06/20/1920