A Crossroad Encounter

1 Thessalonians 1:9-10

“For they themselves report concerning us the kind of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.”

What’s coming!!!  Going out of our subdivision, most of the time I go left on Rebecca Creek Road, and it runs into FM 311, if Jan is in the car with me, I always ask if anything is coming.  The way the road comes at an angle it’s very difficult to see what is coming, and it would be foolish to go forward without making sure all is clear.  A mistake at this crossroad could cost you your life.  I’m not sure about many things and the older I get the more I understand how much I need help to navigate the crossroads that life is throwing at me; crossroads like putting my trust in a political party, or who really knows in this market what to do with your investments, or when it is time to stop acquiring and to let someone else enjoy the stuff you no longer need.  I’ve only listed a few of the many crossroads that face us each day, but what about the eternal?  Are you giving any thought to a time when time will be no more, but you will be very much alive. 

In James 4:14, the Bible compares this life to a mist, “Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.”  Every one of us is coming to that crossroad, we have no understanding of when, but death of our earthsuit is certain.  Living in the hill country of Texas we have flash floods, and at all low water crossings there are signs telling people not to enter, or not to cross when water is running over the road, yet many ignore the signs, and some take down the road barriers and many have died.  That is what Jesus has delivered us from, not the physical death, but the wrath of God that is coming.

In 2 Samuel 14:14, I came across a real jewel, “Like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be recovered, so we must die.  But God does not take away life; instead, he devises ways so that a banished person may not remain estranged from him.”  God in His great love for you was not able because of His holiness and justice to give you a pass on sin, and sin brings about death, but as Samuel said so well, God sent His only Son to take your place, to pay a debt for your sins.  So if you are reading this, understand that God does not grade on a curve, your sins will bring separation in hell from God for eternity.  You are at a crossroad, but God has made a way so that you will not be estranged from him, go to the Bible, and ask God to give you the faith to believe Romans 10:9, “Because, if you confess (agree with God that you are a sinner) with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” (Added)

From the Back Porch,

Bob Rice