Jewels #27 (March 3, 2009)
"They shall be Mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in the day when I make up MY JEWELS."
(Malachi 3:17)
To my dear grandchildren,
"Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that hears My word, and believes on Him that sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life."
(John 5:24)
Many years ago at a circus, a fire broke out in the main tent. It spread to a wheat field nearby and began to burn toward the village in the valley. "Someone must go into the village and tell the people about the fire! Someone must tell the people to run for their lives! Someone must go into the village and let them know that the fire is coning toward them and that the village will burn unless they do something to stop it, "yelled the ringmaster."
The clown, still in full costume, decided to heed the call. He jumped on a bicycle and rode into the village sounding the warning. He rode up and down the streets yelling at people, "Do something! Run for your lives! Stop the fire! There's a fire coming this way! Your village is going to be burned to the ground unless you do something right away!" The people just stood along the sidewalks and applauded the clown. The more he screamed, the more they applauded. The more he yelled his warnings, the more they cheered him. They didn't take him seriously. After all, he was a clown.
Are you paying attention to the message that God sent to the world? God's word is not to be taken lightly.
"How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation?" (Hebrews 2:3)
