Driving on the interstate around Atlanta on a Saturday afternoon seemed so easy, compared to what traffic would have been like on a weekday during the same time.
It was lovebug season again, and windshields and front bumpers and grills were collecting the evidence. Somehow one lovebug (Plecia Nearctica, an insect that swarms at some seasons in the Gulf states) had found its way into the cab of my semi. It floated around from window to window looking for a way out. When it landed on the visor over my head, I decided to help set it free. I opened my driver’s side window about an inch and then reached up to carefully pick up the lovebug and put it out the window.
I took my eyes off the road for a few seconds to make sure I didn’t injure the bug as I picked it up and transferred it to the opening in the window. It took only a few seconds, but when I looked up I was driving on the shoulder of the highway! A set of concrete barriers was straight ahead of me, to prevent vehicles from running into the supports of an overpass coming up just ahead. I quickly steered the big truck back onto the road and immediately thanked my Lord for saving me from hitting the bridge or losing control and causing a bad accident-and possibly even the death of myself and others.
It was only one tiny lovebug, and only a few seconds between life as I knew it and a sudden death. Thankfully, if I had been killed, I know I would have immediately been in the presence of my Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. But how about you? Are you ready to go, and are you sure of where you would be if your life suddenly ended? Amos 4:1212Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel. (Amos 4:12) tells us, “Prepare to meet thy God.” If you wait to be ready and to prepare in your own time, you may not have time enough at the last.
“Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation” (2 Cor. 6:22(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succored thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.) (2 Corinthians 6:2)). Ask the Lord Jesus to come into your heart, remove your sins, and be in control of your life-and do it NOW! We cannot see our own future, nor realize how quickly life can end. “Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth” (Prov. 27:11Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. (Proverbs 27:1)).