Safety First

 •  2 min. read  •  grade level: 6
 
"Safety First" is a good motto, but many seem to prefer Safety LAST. If you saw a man sleeping on the railway track, would you not do your utmost to save him? But one need not lie on the railroad line in the way of a train to be near death, for "what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away." And, "it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment."
Perhaps the reader's motto is. "Safety First," and acting upon this, he takes every precaution for the preservation of health and natural life; but strange to say, not one thought does he give to his soul's eternal welfare. Safety Last is Satan's motto and his artful device to lure men and women into hell. He has no objection to your believing in heaven so long as you take no steps to get there.
God's way is Safety First TO Last. "In the beginning God" reveals His "Way" of safety; but it was at Calvary where "Safety First" was obtained for hell-deserving sinners. Now if you will trust in Christ's redeeming blood, you will have a place of safety from the wrath of God that abides on all Christ-rejecters. "Safety is of the LORD," as we find in Proverbs 21:3131The horse is prepared against the day of battle: but safety is of the Lord. (Proverbs 21:31). Would you be safe from the power and penalty of sin? "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 Safety First is a good principle to act on where the welfare of your body is concerned, how much more so should it be concerning the soul? The soul MUST exist forever, either in heaven or in hell; and you, not God, must choose where you will spend that vast forever: ETERNITY.
Dear fellow traveler to eternity, which will you choose: eternal bliss in heaven, or eternal torment in hell? Hell is out of date with most people, but it is not out of the Bible. What did the Lord Jesus mean when He said, "Flee from the wrath to come"?
Hear and heed God's answer: "The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God." Psa. 9:1717The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God. (Psalm 9:17).
"And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire." Rev. 20:1515And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. (Revelation 20:15).
We have set before you the "Way" of Life, and the way of death; therefore choose life NOW.