It was a really nice evening, and Amanda had just gotten her driver’s license. She wanted to have some fun, so she asked her parents if she could drive to her friend Jenny’s house. Actually, Amanda had no intention of staying at Jenny’s house. She and Jenny had planned to go into the nearby city of Chicago to attend a party in a dangerous part of the city. The girls knew that their parents wouldn’t allow them to go to the party, so they both lied to their parents. They told them they were just going to a friend’s house.
Amanda and Jenny had to use a high-speed expressway to drive into the city. Suddenly Amanda lost control of the car and crashed into a guardrail. Amanda had her seatbelt fastened and was not seriously hurt. But it was a different story for Jenny. She had not buckled her seatbelt and was hurled through the windshield and into the guardrail.
Jenny was rushed to the emergency room of the hospital where she lapsed into a coma. The swelling of her brain, caused by the impact with the guardrail, gradually improved. Three days later she regained consciousness but could not remember what had happened.
What a sudden and terrible way for a lie to be found out! God does not always allow something dreadful to happen to us when we disobey Him. Sometimes it seems as if no one knows what we have done, and it looks as though we have gotten away with the sin. But God’s Word, the Bible, says, “Be sure your sin will find you out” (Numbers 32:2323But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the Lord: and be sure your sin will find you out. (Numbers 32:23)). He also reminds us that “the eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good” (Proverbs 15:33The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good. (Proverbs 15:3)). Although we may think we have gotten away with something, not one thing is hidden from God: “All things are naked and opened unto the eyes of Him with whom we have to do” (Hebrews 4:1313Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do. (Hebrews 4:13)).
But God is not watching us because He is looking for something to punish. He is watching us because He cares about us! He loves us so much that He sent His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, to die for our sins. He is just waiting for you to accept the pardon He is offering to you. “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:1616For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:16)).
Won’t you accept His pardon for your sins today?
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