© 2013 by Tom Boynton (editing by Kathy Boynton)

Many of us are so busy that we find it hard to stop and think about long-term issues. We’re so busy dealing with the details of everyday life that we don’t have time to think about where we’re going. The following parable is designed to illustrate this problem.

Once upon a time, there was a great storm. A certain man was driving down the road as the storm raged. He had urgent business on the other side of the river. Because he was running late, he was driving as fast as he could. Suddenly, he came upon some folks standing in the middle of the road flagging him down. As he reluctantly stopped, he was overwhelmed with frustration at being delayed when he was already running so late. He angrily told the folks, who had flagged him down, to get out of his way. “But sir…,” they said. Interrupting, the driver shouted, “I don’t have time to stop and talk with you. Now get out of my way!” As they continued trying to explain what they wanted, the driver impatiently drove around them and angrily sped off down the road. In great sorrow, the folks who had stopped him watched him drive into the distance. One of them sadly remarked, “I wish he would have listened. When he gets to that washed out bridge, he’s going to plunge to his death.”

Reader: Are you traveling down life’s highway so intensely that you don’t have time to consider what will happen when you come to the river of death? There is only one way across that river. His name is Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. Because of the great chasm that exists between God, who is Holy, and man, who is wicked, the Lord Jesus Christ shed His blood on the cross of Calvary, offering Himself as a redemption sacrifice for sinners. He will save all who renounce their sins and cry out to Him for mercy and forgiveness. Jesus said, “…I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” (John 14:6).

Are you in such a hurry to get to your desired destination that you will never get there?

 

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