Cooking. Harmless, painless, and usually quite fun. Usually. But some days it doesn't turn out so well. Last week, I was cooking eggs. And I made the fire alarm go off. Let's just say the tortilla and the burner decided to get acquainted. Well, the fire alarm went off. . . which is really embarrassing. But, eventually the smoke cleared out and the alarm quit beeping.
Unlike my kitchen alarm, that has a short duration, there is a fire alarm that has been sounding for years--centuries even. Interestingly enough, the only people who can hear it are the ones who stand no chance of being burned by the fire: the redeemed. Anyone who has turned from his or her sins and trusted Christ as Savior has been saved from an eternity in hell.
But the fire alarm has gone off and it's still sounding. This fire alarm is the alarm ringing of the realities of hell. As Christians, we know about this place of separation from God in a terrible place of punishment. A place where those who have rejected Christ's free gift will stay for eternity.
How loud is the fire alarm to you? What are we doing to tell others of God's grace?
Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. 36And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. 37And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth. 38 I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours. John 4:35-38
15 July 2010
Alexander Whyte
"A life spent in the service of God and communion with Him is the most comfortable and pleasant life that anyone can live in this world."
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