JUST outside the house where I write, there is a long pole across the street. It rests on two supports, and has a board tied to it with the notice thereon—
“Road Stopped.”
This is plainly to prevent an accident. Excavations are going on in the street to a depth of perhaps fifteen feet or more, and there is no room for vehicles to pass.
None are so foolish as to attempt to make a passage past the notice; they go round another way.
Now, God has written “Road stopped” upon the way of works for salvation, and in infinite mercy has provided a way of blessing through the one Mediator. Christ Jesus. by which sinners can be saved from eternal destruction.
Yet what we see every day is that men will endeavor to make their own way of salvation, and so disregard the only true way. They pass on to certain judgment. Oh, that they could see where they are going, and flee to Christ! As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up: that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.”
ML 02/28/1909