The noise of screeching tires made me quickly turn around, just as the car hit the motorcycle. The cyclist was thrown off the motorcycle and landed, hitting his head on the cement sidewalk. He wore no helmet.
I wondered if the cyclist could survive such a landing. To my amazement, in a few moments he was standing and brushing the dust off his clothes.
The cyclist passed his hand over his head and noticed that his hair had a little blood on it, but nothing that seemed serious. To calm the car’s driver and all those who ran to help him, he said, “It is nothing to worry about.” He used his handkerchief to wipe away the blood coming from the small cut on the top of his head.
The driver insisted that the cyclist should still be taken to the hospital. A doctor there cleaned his head wound and put medicine on it. They also gave him something to take for his headache. But still he insisted that it was not serious, so they let him go home.
Just a little cut - only a little blood. Just a little sin - only a little white lie. Nothing serious? Nothing to worry about? God doesn’t look at sin lightly. He tells us plainly, “The wages of sin is death” (Romans 6:2323For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Romans 6:23)).
Later that night, the young motorcyclist’s headache got much worse. His family decided to take him back to the hospital. But by the time they arrived, the young man was already in a coma. Before the doctors could do anything to help him, he died. The wound that seemed to be just a small cut was disguising a serious hemorrhage inside his brain that would take his life in a few hours.
There are many who go on in this life giving little or no thought to their sins. But even one little sin is a sign of a serious problem. The Word of God says that sin comes from the rebellion of man against his Creator, and now every sinner deserves eternal judgment. Are you interested in the “helmet” God has prepared for any who will trust in the Lord Jesus for salvation? In Ephesians 6:1717And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: (Ephesians 6:17) God encourages us to “take the helmet of salvation.” He also tells us concerning His Son, Jesus Christ: “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved” (Acts 4:1212Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. (Acts 4:12)). “How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation?” (Hebrews 2:33How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him; (Hebrews 2:3)).
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