A big fire in a chocolate company made a sweet but sticky mess. Chocolate was stored in the area where the fire broke out. During the fire the chocolate melted and formed puddles three feet deep and thirty 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. When we think of what those firemen must have looked like, it makes us smile. But when we think of all that sweet chocolate going to waste, it makes us sad.
There is another picture that brings only sadness to our hearts. Men and women and boys and girls are turning down all the sweetness of God’s love and grace. God showed His great love in sending His Son, “for God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son [Jesus]” (John 3:16). But they have turned down Jesus too: “He 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 55:1). Now is the time to accept Him as your Saviour.
“Seek ye the Lord while He may be found, call ye upon Him while He is near” (Isaiah 55:6).
ML-05/22/2011