Fourteen-year-old Cindy Miller phoned her friend, Stannis, at the Covered Wagon restaurant. Stannis was worried. The Big Thompson River was rising and had surrounded the restaurant.
Suddenly, even while they talked on the phone, a flash flood of tidal waves proportions, bore down on the restaurant and washed it away. Everyone in it perished.
In horror Cindy and her parents realized that the restaurant was only four miles up the river. In minutes they too would be washed away if they could not escape. While Mr. Miller quickly warned the neighbors, Mrs. Miller crowded the children into the car.
Down the canyon they drove as fast as possible. Seconds after they crossed one bridge, it collapsed. At the end of the canyon there was high ground and safety. Could they make it? They came around the last bend of the road and pulled up on high ground. Looking behind, their unbelieving ayes saw a wall of water nineteen feet high surging down the road they had just traveled.
What a narrow escape from almost certain death!
They escaped! How thrilling! But how much more thrilling it is to hear that some boy or girl, or older one too has escaped from judgment, from passing into a lost eternity, through trusting their soul’s salvation to the Lord Jesus Christ. Do not neglect your salvation, dear reader.
Every one of us was born in sin. We all inherited a sinful nature from our fallen parents, Adam and Eve. Every child of Adam needs salvation. God has provided this salvation in the death of His own beloved Son. Jesus is the only Saviour of sinners, the only hope of man!
ML-05/29/1977