A Train Without an Engineer Is Like …

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Memory Verse: “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man; but the end thereof are the ways of death.” Proverbs 14:1212There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. (Proverbs 14:12)
Mr. Cowdery couldn’t believe his eyes. As he glanced up from his work, he saw Train 634 slowly leaving the Caterham station south of London. “She’s a run-away,” he thought. “I’m sure there’s no one aboard that train.” Mr. Cowdery rushed to the telephone and got in touch with the signal man. Soon the alarm had been passed from station to station down the track.
Ahead at the East Croydon station they agreed to try to jump on the moving train and stop it. When the train reached the station, it was going at least 20 miles an hour. The train thundered past, but the attempt to jump on was just too dangerous.
Ahead train after train was turned off onto sidings to allow the run-away to pass safely through on the main line. The driverless train hurtled for nine miles at speeds up to 40 miles per hour through South London suburbs. At one time it rushed along the busiest line in the country at the beginning of the rush hour. Everywhere in its course there was chaos and a frantic attempt to clear other trains out of the way.
The train was going too fast to jump. No other trains were close enough behind to catch up with it. What could be done? At last they switched the train into a siding at Norwood. There it smashed into the buffers and was derailed.
A train without an engineer is like... WHAT? It is like a boy or a girl who does not have an engineer in their lives. And who is the Engineer? The Engineer is the Lord Jesus Christ. A boy or a girl who does not have the Lord Jesus Christ in their lives is bound to end up with a wrecked life. The Bible says, “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man; but the end thereof are the ways of death.” Prov. 14:1212There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. (Proverbs 14:12). We may think that we know the best way, but if our way isn’t God’s way, it is the way of death.
“Jesus saw a man, named Matthew,... and He saith unto him, Follow Me. And he arose, and foowed Him.” Matt. 9:99And as Jesus passed forth from thence, he saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he saith unto him, Follow me. And he arose, and followed him. (Matthew 9:9). Each of us should be like Matthew.
Jesus said, “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of My hand.”
ML-02/17/1980