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Gambling
A sudden thunderstorm sent a flash flood through the streets and into the gambling casinos of Las Vegas, Nevada. As the Colorado River rose, downtown streets were closed off and buildings sandbagged, but in the casinos, it was “business as usual” to the patrons determined to carry on.
The manager of one place said, “Water was dripping on the slot machines, but the people kept pulling the handles. We finally had to ask them to move. It didn’t seem to bother them at all. You hear stories like this. It’s hard to believe until you see it. They are oblivious and couldn’t care less!”
It is a perfect picture of many people today. We are living in a time when nations are being swept by storms of revolution and change, a time when the greatest storm of all, the storm of God’s judgment, could break at any time, but still people go on, oblivious to all the warnings. They are gambling, not money, but their souls. They are risking their eternal future for temporary gain. They willingly run that risk every day, gambling that tomorrow will find them still alive with one more chance to be saved.
I hope none of my readers are gambling with their eternal souls. “For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” (Mark 8:36).
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