Love of Life

From: Echoes of Grace: 1981

• 2 min. read • grade level: 6

We know that love of life is inborn in all of us. Men do not willingly endanger their lives. We normally flee from danger if it threatens us. All our instincts work 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 importance.

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 another and more terrible danger threatens us. Every soul born into this world is a sinner, and in desperate need of a Savior. (Romans 3:10¹⁰As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: (Romans 3:10).) God's wrath is soon to fall upon this world on all who refuse the Savior He provided—His own dear Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. (2 Peter 3:10-12¹⁰But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. ¹¹Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, ¹²Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? (2 Peter 3:10‑12).)

Every soul who rejects God's salvation—the death of Jesus Christ on the cross of Calvary—faces the awful danger of eternal loss. For him is reserved the blackness of darkness forever, and the dread certainty of spending eternity in the lake of fire.

Oh, use your eyes! See your danger! "Flee from the wrath to come." Matthew 3:7⁷But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? (Matthew 3:7). Listen with your ears to God's message now going forth: "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved." Acts 16:31³¹And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. (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." Romans 10:9, 10⁹That 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. ¹⁰For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. (Romans 10:9‑10).

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