Warnings are usually given as cold, hard facts: “Don’t try to swim there; the riptide is dangerous.” Or: “Don’t try to drive tonight; the roads are too icy!” They often seem like threats to having fun, but they are meant in kindness. So we say, “Thank you,” and go our own way to “do our own thing.” Sometimes we can say later: “I wish I had listened!” Sometimes we are not given the chance.
That was the case with a carload of teenagers recently. One girl in the group used her cell phone to call her sister. She told her she was going riding with friends. The driver was known for speeding. Her sister warned: “You shouldn’t! He drives too fast!”
But the excited 16-year-old
assured her that “nothing is
going to happen!”
What did happen?
Less than thirty minutes later the four young people in the car met instant death as they sped past a stop sign and into an intersection at the same time as another car.
A friend of one of the girls said, “She texted me to say she would be home really shortly” — just before the crash.
So many, many more are being warned every day — warned by God Himself in His Word, the Bible! “It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment” (Hebrews 9:2727And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: (Hebrews 9:27)). There is no promise of a longer life even to those who are young. This very day there will be many young, healthy, full of life, hopes and dreams, who will hear a warning voice, but answer, “Nothing’s going to happen!”
You have been aware of this warning, but feel as though it can’t happen to you. Oh, listen, for the love of your immortal soul, LISTEN!
Don’t neglect; don’t reject; don’t ignore the warning