Love of Life

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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 3:10.) 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 3:10-12.)
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 3:7. Listen with your ears to God's message now going forth: "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved." Acts 16:31.
"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, 10.