The early morning sky was dull and gray. The highway was a straight ribbon of black emerging gradually out of the mist which obscured the flat prairie landscape. On it two cars hurtled toward each other. One contained a father and three of his children on their way to a day's work on the farm. The other vehicle's sole occupant was a university student returning to classes from celebrations which had lasted until early that morning.
One minute hopes, plans and dreams for the future existed. The next minute brought the crash of smashing metal and breaking glass, and the termination of three lives: the solitary driver of the one car and the driver of the other with his thirteen-year-old son. The other two children were injured.
One of the surviving children reported to his mother as she sat by his hospital bed: "The other car was coming down the road on the wrong side, like sixty, and Daddy didn't have a chance!"
When the tragic news was related to the young woman―that her husband and son were dead, gone from this earth in an instant―she had the consolation of knowing that both her husband and son were "absent from the body... present with the Lord" (2 Cor. 5:88We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. (2 Corinthians 5:8)) because both had accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior and Substitute.
What about YOU?
ACCIDENT is just a word―so the saying goes―until it happens to YOU!
If your name appeared in a police fatality report, the newspaper death notices or the weekend highway loss-of-life statistics―your life snuffed out without an opportunity to prepare to meet God in eternity―where would your soul be?
You can buy insurance on your life and your possessions-but NOT on your soul that will live forever.
The good news is that God has a "policy" that "insures" the soul. The "premium" was paid by the Lord Jesus Christ at Calvary when He died: "God... sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins." 1 John 4:1010Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. (1 John 4:10).
God offers you this "insurance"―FREE FORGIVENESS―with the price of the premium fully paid. God gives great dividends too: He forgives your sins, gives you a home in heaven, makes you a member of His family and gives you purpose, direction and satisfaction in this life.
Take God's offer NOW! You need it in order to be prepared for whatever the future may bring.