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The Point of No Return
The scene of this awful tragedy was Stone Mountain, in the state of Georgia, USA. There they boast the largest boulder in the world.
One day, atop the mountain, a young man walked unsuspectingly along, seemingly oblivious to the gradual downward curvature of the dome-like mountain. Suddenly, he became aware of the fact that he was powerless to retrace his steps to safety. He had gone to the point ofno return. Frantically, he cried, “Help! Help!” His piteous plea was to no avail. Horrified spectators saw him hurtle to his death below.
We shake our heads and say, “How careless of the young man not to pay attention to where he was going.” But there are many who are traveling the road of life just as indifferent to their eternal fate. They pay no attention to the fact that twice the book of Proverbs warns, “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death” (Proverbs 14:12; 16:25). They continue on to their eternal death and ruin in hell, instead of taking “the way, which leadeth unto life” (Matthew 7:14).
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