THE IMPORTANCE OF CHOICE

A sailor and a miner lost control of the rowboat they were manoeuvering above a waterfall. The swift water started hurling them to destruction. Someone from the shore flung a rope to the two as they were tossed from their boat into the pounding current. At that same instant, a boating log shot by. The sailor grabbed the rope and hung on,but the miner seized the log and wrapped himself around it, ignoring the rope. The man grasping the log was borne irresistibly along to his destruction. The other man was pulled safely to the shore. The gospel message is that Christ is on the shore, throwing us a life-saving rope. So many things seem to float by that are attractive, but life shows them to be fatal. Isaiah pled for Israel to grasp the Hand of the Lord which is with His servants. - Selected