WHEN I WAS a boy I lived on a farm for a year. Nearby a river flowed through a wide stretch of beautiful golden sand. What a wonderful place to play in! Just the kind of place most boys and girls would like to have near their home.
But there was one area on the sand flats where we were not allowed to play. There was a fence running along side of it and we knew that here, on the other side of that fence, were quicksands.
Well, you know, many boys and girls don't take much notice of warnings and so one day I hopped the fence and jumped down the river bank onto the sand below. It looked firm enough, just like the rest of the sand. But is wasn't the same. No sooner had I landed on this spot than I began to sink. The treacherous sands started to suck me down. Quickly I flung myself over, grasped the long grass on the bank and was able to pull myself to safety.
I've never forgotten that experience. I have learned something of the treacherous pleasure spots in this world and of the awful "quicksands" of sin. But I found I could not pull myself up and save myself after falling into sin; on the contrary, the more I struggled the deeper I sank.
I cried to the Lord Jesus, and He saved me. He's the only Saviour of sinners. "For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly"; and "God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." Rom. 5:6,86For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. (Romans 5:6)
8But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:8).
There is another verse that says, "He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock." Psa. 40:22He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. (Psalm 40:2). Dear young friends, have you your feet on the Rock? Are you trusting in the Saviour? Or are you still in the quicksands of this world, being pulled down by the attractions of Satan to an eternity of endless woe. Trust in the Lord Jesus Christ now, He will deliver you and set your feet firm on the Rock of Ages.
Messages of the Love of God 8/17/1975