“Two boys were hiking along the railroad tracks one day,” the voice said over the radio. “It was almost time for the afternoon Zepher—a fast train that was always right on the dot.”
“I dare you to do something!” one boy said to the other. “I dare you to put your fingers in your ears and see who can walk the tracks the longest and jump off just in time!”
“O.K.! Here goes!” answered the other.
Neither boy heard the fast train until they felt the tracks tremble beneath their feet. Even then each was determined to stay on the tracks the longest.
At the last split second the boys jumped for their lives!
The voice over the radio said, “One boy was killed. The other boy had both of his legs cut off! I know that what I am telling you is true. The boy who had his legs cut off is my brother!”
What a dreadful thing to do, boys and girls, to deliberately stop one’s ears to warning signals in the face of such great danger! You would not do that, would you?
But stop and think! Are you sure that that is not exactly what you are doing? God’s Word is full of plain, warnings: “The wages of sin is death!”
“Flee from the wrath to come!”
“Prepare to meet thy God!”
“The soul that sinneth, it shall die!”
“Because there is wrath beware!”
Listen to what happened long ago, “They refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears that they should not hear. Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant (hard) stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the Lord of hosts hath sent in His spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the Lord of hosts” (Zech. 7:11-1211But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear. 12Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the Lord of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the Lord of hosts. (Zechariah 7:11‑12)).
At railroad crossings you have seen the signs that say, “Stop, Look, and Listen”; haven’t you?
Across the path of every boy and girl, every man and woman, there is a sign that says, “Stop, Look and Listen.” It is the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ!
Have you STOPPED? Or are you hurrying on toward danger and eternal death carelessly?
Have you LISTENED? “Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that HEARETH My word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life” (John 5:2424Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. (John 5:24)).
Boys and girls, if you have read this story and turn away without receiving the Lord Jesus as your Savior, you are doing what the two boys did upon the railroad tracks! You are stopping your ears, and turning your backs upon God! You are doing what Satan “dares” you to do!
Turn to Him while there is time!