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“Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth” (Proverbs 27:1).
More than 13 million people travel by train every day in India, and as I write this in June, 2023, a large number of people boarded several trains yesterday on the main north/south line on the east side of the country. Probably none of them thought about what might happen, but a terrible wreck occurred, involving three trains. Nearly 300 people were killed and hundreds of others were injured. I know those trains well, for I have often ridden on those exact trains, on that exact line, many times when I have visited India.
Our verse today reminds us that we never know what a day may bring forth. No doubt many got on those trains yesterday, expecting to visit friends or relatives, or perhaps to go somewhere for work-related reasons. None of them got to their destination that day, and many are now in eternity. All this emphasizes the importance of knowing Christ as our Savior, and being ready if the Lord should allow us suddenly to be taken into eternity. I did not, of course, know anyone who was on those trains, but I trust that at least some of those who died knew the Lord Jesus.
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