“HIT TRAIN, BUT DRIVER KEPT GOING,” the newspaper headline said.
It was 2 a.m. as the freight train thundered through the railroad crossing in the countryside near Bowmanville, Ontario. Sergeant Stan Bosak brought his police car to a stop at the flashing red signal. He waited on the lonely, dark road for the train to pass.
A flash of light from his rearview mirror caught his eyes. He watched the car coming up behind him. Too fast. Not stopping. Swerving around the police car, Michael smashed into the train! His 1984 Camaro hit between two railroad cars. It was dragged down the tracks with the train.
Can you believe somebody would ignore the railroad crossing signals and not stop? Yes! And aren’t people this foolish in other ways? God tells us to “Ponder [consider] the path of thy feet.” Proverbs 4:2626Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established. (Proverbs 4:26). Do people ever ignore God’s Word and forget to stop and consider what He says? That’s a question for you to answer....
Two miles down the track Sergeant Bosak looked into the wrecked car. Michael, the 25-year-old driver, unhurt, was still pushing on the gas pedal. The wheels were spinning, but they had no tires now.
“Train?... What train?” Michael said.
The policeman commented, “I have never seen anything like this in my life!” One headlight was still on, smoke was everywhere, and the car was a total wreck. The car had ended up on an embankment, and the driver thought he was still driving.
Yes, of course, you guessed it. The young man had been drinking and wasn’t even aware that he had hit a train. Sergeant Bosak said, “He is very, very lucky. Somebody up there protected him.”
Yes indeed, Someone was protecting him. And it wasn’t luck! God watches over each one of us. In spite of all our carelessness and sin He still loves us, having sent His Son to deliver us. He calls for each one to come to the Lord Jesus. We need a Saviour. Are we just going to cruise along and ignore the warning? Are we so blinded by Satan that we don’t even know we’re heading for a destructive dead end? As Michael turned onto the dark country road that night he did not expect anyone to know he was driving illegally. But can sin be hidden forever? Who can know what God will allow to bring us before Him, the “Judge of all the earth” who will reveal “every secret thing"?
Perhaps you have felt like the driver of the wrecked car. The ride has been rough and you’ve said to yourself, “I’m getting nowhere and something is very wrong in my life.” Maybe you haven’t recognized that God is speaking to you and using the circumstances of your life to get your attention. He is calling you away from the passing world to the Saviour who loves you so much that He died for you, if you will have Him. Don’t race on! Stop! Listen to His Word. “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me.” John 14:66Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. (John 14:6).
ML-05/07/1989