My husband and I were sitting by the windows in a restaurant in sunny Mexico. One level below us, a couple sat at a table outdoors, waiting for their food. The waiter brought out several plates of food and set them on a table underneath our window. Then he took one plate of food at a time to the couple who was sitting a few tables away.
Nearby, we could see a black crow that seemed to be quite interested in those plates of food. He fluttered to a fence and perched there when the waiter came close, but he got bolder and bolder as he watched for a chance to make his move. When the waiter turned his back and walked over to the couple with another plate of food, the two of us watched, hardly believing what was happening. The bird flew to the table where the last plate of food was sitting. It hopped onto the plate and quickly snatched a large tortilla chip off the plate and flew off with it in his beak!
Now a crow is a very large black bird that eats dead animals. They sometimes will land directly on the dead animal and begin pulling the dead flesh off and eating it. In this way, a crow can carry disease and harmful bacteria to anything they land on, like a plate of food.
The waiter, who had seen the bird waiting nearby and did not seem at all interested or alarmed, merely walked over to the table, picked up the plate and served it to the couple!
There’s a saying, “What you don’t know won’t hurt you.” The waiter may have agreed with this statement and figured it didn’t matter that the crow had landed right on the plate and snatched a chip. The couple didn’t know a crow had landed on their plate of food, and they ate their meal happily.
There are many things in life that we may not be aware of, and so we are not alarmed at what a close call we may have had at some time. But there is one thing in life that you and I must be aware of, and that has to do with where we will spend eternity after we leave this world. We each must make an important decision, and that means every boy and girl, as well as every older person. What you decide will either reserve a place for you in heaven or will send you to Satan’s hell in outer darkness forever.
Many people go through life thinking only of everyday things, like having a good time. They do not think about God or that someday they will have to meet Him. None of us will live forever. Hebrews 9:2727And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: (Hebrews 9:27) tells us, “It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment.”
God is our Creator. He made each one of us, and He sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to die for our sins. Because He loves us so much, Jesus has done the work to clear our debt of sins and make us clean before God.
ML-04/27/2014