Warnings

         How many time in the next day will you be warned about doing something? Every time I turn on my electric range, a light soon come on warning me of a hot surface. I get in the car and pull down the visor, and there is a warning about the air bags. Fire trucks and police cars have a way to suggest urgency.  They use the sirens.  There have been a number of times while being on the road where a fire truck and a crash truck will come down a busy street and and head for the scene of an accident.  They will use their red lights and sirens to tell people that they were coming and that they should get out of the way.  We try to use various methods that will imply urgency to others in many different jobs.  While working for A. T. and T. on a telephone test board, we would find all kinds of signs that told us of impending dangers should we pull a certain plug.  The Bible also has a number of urgent things contained in it.  The plea for salvation is one of the most important items in the Scripture.  Second Corinthians 6:2 says, "For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)"   

         This quote comes from Isaiah 49:8.  Much has been written on this verse of Scripture and one application can be the fact that this is indeed the day of salvation.  God has given us an opportunity to be saved and that opportunity exists in this day.  No one knows about tomorrow and therefore we should be thinking seriously about where we will spend eternity.  Our live on this earth is but a short drop in the bucket when compared with what happens after we pass away from this life.  Maybe preachers should have sirens and flashing red lights to warn people about the end that is coming.  The world has long joked about it and has given a false sense of security to the unbeliever.  We have lived so long with all kinds of warnings, that we have become so used to them that we just disregard them and go on our way. The result is many feel as if they are OK if they just take their chances that God will somehow let them into heaven, if indeed they believe that there is a heaven, or they simply say that they don't believe in God and that this will make them exempt from judgment. This is not the case.  God has set forth a wonderful plan of salvation and this plan is presented in the Bible.  All we have to do is to look at it and take heed to what it says.   So, don't put off making this critical decision.  Some may say that they will wait until they are at their death bed in order to do it.  Again, you may not have the mind to do so at that time.  God has given us all ample warning that today is indeed the day of salvation simply because you may not have tomorrow.  Don't put it off.  Praise God that He has made salvation possible.