A big fire in a chocolate company made a sweet but sticky mess. Chocolate was stored in the area where the fire broke out. During the fire the chocolate melted and formed puddles three feet deep and thirty feet wide. Firemen waded through the mess, getting chocolate on their coats, hands and faces. They joked about being “walking chocolate bars.”
For those of us who love chocolate, this picture is one that brings both smiles and sadness. When we think of what those firemen must have looked like, it makes us smile. But when we think of all that sweet chocolate going to waste, it makes us sad.
There is another picture that brings only sadness to our hearts. Men and women and boys and girls are turning down all the sweetness of God’s love and grace. God showed His great love in sending His Son, “for God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son [Jesus]” (John 3:1616For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:16)). But they have turned down Jesus too: “He came unto His own, and His own received Him not” (John 1:1111He came unto his own, and his own received him not. (John 1:11)). Have you accepted Him as your Saviour? If not, why? God’s love is being offered free, “without money and without price” (Isaiah 55:11Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. (Isaiah 55:1)). Now is the time to accept Him as your Saviour.
ML-05/22/2011