It was a cold evening with blowing snow and the temperature well below freezing.
“Listen...I hear a fire engine!”
We quickly went to the window. Dark smoke was rising above the houses on the next street. We put on warm clothes and walked in the direction of the smoke. We found an apartment building burning! Some of the people who lived in the building were standing there. They could only watch as their belongings went up in flames.
The question everyone asked was, “Is anyone still in there?” Firemen broke windows, intending to go in, but heavy smoke poured out and stopped them. They could only hope that everyone was out.
Firemen could not go into the building until the next morning. To their amazement they heard cries from a terrified cat! They searched for it by following its meowing. One of them opened a kitchen cupboard, and there was the unhappy, confused cat, almost too cold to meow any longer!
When the firemen found the cat, it wasn’t curled up asleep in the cupboard, not caring that it was trapped, cold and hungry. It was meowing good and loud! It wanted to be rescued. And we are warning boys and girls, and grown-ups too, who are still in their sins not to ignore their danger. If no one had found that poor cat, it would have frozen to death. And any child or grown-up still in their sins faces an awful penalty: “The wages of sin is death” (Romans 6:2323For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Romans 6:23)).
The Lord Jesus cares about you and wants to save you from that awful penalty. You only need to call to Him, admitting that you are a sinner and want to be saved. He promises, “Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved” (Romans 10:1313For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. (Romans 10:13)).
ML-03/11/2012