Just imagine for a minute that you are a cement finisher standing on a narrow scaffolding. You are working on one of the trestles leading up to the main span of the Sunshine Skyway that towers far above your head. Below you is only the blue-green water of the Gulf of Mexico.
Suddenly you drop your concrete bucket and it falls into the water ten feet below. What do you do?
It happened just like that a few months ago. A construction worker on the bridge dropped his concrete bucket into the water, and what do you suppose he did?
Why, he threw off his life vest and jumped into the swirling water below. He came to the surface and co-workers threw him a rope, but it fell out of his reach. He sank below the surface again, and did not reappear.
Soon the company boats and the U.S. Coast Guard were searching the waters, but when at last a diver found the body it was just that—a body. Life had gone.
Now you are thinking that you wouldn't have thrown the life vest away; have you disregarded the "life vest" God has provide for us? That young worker lost his life because he trusted in his own strength. Are you trusting in something you can do for your own salvation?
We must "trust in the Lord." There is no other way of safety either here or hereafter. "Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other Name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved." Acts 4:1212Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. (Acts 4:12).