Inattention
“Incline your ear, and come unto Me: hear,
and your soul shall live” (Isaiah 55:3).
It was a cold winter morning and Scott decided to walk to work. Young and healthy, the thought of a brisk walk was appealing. With earphones so he could listen to music he started out, stopping at a newsstand to pick up a paper. With music to entertain and the newspaper to inform he was all set. He negotiated several intersections successfully, but as he approached the railway crossing, something either in the paper or in the music so engrossed his attention that he failed to see and hear the flashing lights and clanging bells warning of an oncoming train. As the result of a few moments of inattention he was killed instantly!
Are you doing something just as foolish as Scott did? All around you are the warnings of judgment to come: gospel tracts, the man next to you on the bus who speaks to you about your soul, the girl in the next desk at school who quotes Bible verses to you. Are you listening? Or are the pressures of school or business and the desire for entertainment, blinding and deafening you to the danger which is so rapidly approaching?
