A recent major fire in the Bloomer Chocolate Company made a sweet but sticky mess. Chocolate powder in 100-pound bags was stored in the area where the fire broke out. During the fire the chocolate melted and formed puddles big enough to wade in three feet deep and 30 feet wide. Firemen waded through the mess, getting chocolate on their coats, hands and faces. They joked about being “walking chocolate bars.”
For those of us who love chocolate, this picture is one that brings both smiles and sadness; smiles when we think of what those firemen must have looked like, but sadness when we think of all that delicious chocolate sweetness going to waste.
There is another picture that brings only sadness to our hearts: all the sweetness of God’s love and grace that is being rejected by men and women, boys and girls. God showed His love in sending His Son; “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son...” (John 3:1616For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:16)), yet man rejected Him; “He came unto His own, and His own received Him not.” John 1:1111He came unto his own, and his own received him not. (John 1:11). Have you accepted Him as your Saviour? If not, why? God’s love is being offered free “without money and without price.” Isaiah 55:11Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. (Isaiah 55:1). Now is the time to accept Him as your Saviour.
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