What if you have but one more day?
© 2015 by Tom Boynton (editing by Kathy Boynton)
(Crash site facing departure end of runway – photographed June 2014)
In an earlier article entitled “THE CRASH SITE,” we considered a tragic aircraft accident at a high mountain airport. We likened our own lives to the brief takeoff roll of an airplane. When we leave this life’s runway, we enter our eternal state.
This week, during a return trip to that mountainous region, my wife and I met two individuals, with connections to that tragedy, in two entirely separate and unanticipated encounters. One of these individuals was the wife of the airport manager mentioned in our previous article. She recalled the great sorrow that her husband had experienced on the day of that tragic event. The other individual was a ski instructor named “Dick.”
The day before the tragedy, Dick provided ski lessons to a fourteen year old girl at a nearby ski resort. As he was doing so he was unaware that, the following day, she would be one of four occupants in an ill fated aircraft. Her passage into eternity is still memorialized by one of four crosses that have been placed at the crash site.
As we spoke with Dick, it became clear that he had been deeply touched by his encounter with this young lady who, unknowingly, had but one more day remaining in her life at the time of her ski lesson. He remarked, “I keep wondering what she would have done had she known she had only one more day.”
There are many wonderful things, in this life, that we enjoy. It is easy to ignore eternity as we enjoy life’s pleasures. However, there is a caution in Scripture against selling your soul to gain the world.
“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?” (Mark 8:36-37)
The Lord Jesus Christ, God the Son, came to become the holy blood sacrifice for the sins of all who cry to Him for forgiveness. However, those who reject the Savior will face only His wrath in eternity.
“He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him” (John 3:36).
As you continue your takeoff roll into eternity are you ignoring your eternal needs?
What if you have but one more day?
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