We know that love of life is implanted in the breast, not only of man, but of every living thing throughout creation. The sparrow flies from the hawk. The sheep flees from the wolf. The deer springs in terror from the lion.
Men do not willingly endanger their lives. We all have love of life in us. We normally flee from danger if it threatens us; all our instincts are exercised for our protection. We have eyes to see danger; our ears hear it, and our hearts beat the drum of alarm when we sense its approach. Then our feet help us to flee from it even before our minds grasp its full import. If we were in a house and heard the cry of fire we would rush from the flames. If we were aboard a sinking ship, we would spring into the lifeboat. God has armed us to seek to protect our natural lives.
But terrible danger threatens every child of Adam. Every soul born into this world is a sinner by nature and in desperate need of a Savior. (Rom. 3:10.) God's wrath is soon to fall upon this scene because it refuses the Savior He provided—His own dear Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. (2 Peter 3:10-12.) Every soul who still rejects God's salvation—the death on the cross of Calvary of Jesus Christ—faces the awful danger of eternal loss. For him is reserved the blackness of darkness forever, the dread certainty of spending an endless eternity in the fires of hell.
"He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone... and the smoke of their torment ascendeth up forever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night." Rev. 14:10,11.
Dear lost soul, use your eyes! See your danger! "Flee from the wrath to come." Matt. 3:7. Attend with your ears the gospel message now going forth: "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved." Acts 16:31.
"If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation." Rom. 10:9,10.
Man was driven out of the garden in which God first placed him. But from the paradise of God, the wonderful place of infinite blessing which God provides, and which Christ says He went away to prepare for His own, there will be no more going out.