BBD 08.31.15 Wake Them Up (Classic)
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The Burning
Bush Devotional
Classic
from 2008
08.31.15
Wake
Them Up
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God
to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the
Greek. - Romans 1:16 NKJV.
The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will gather out of His
kingdom all things that offend, and those who practice lawlessness, and will
cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of
teeth. Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their
Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear! - Matthew 13:41-43 NKJV.
In Independence, Missouri 97-year-old Grace George was
saved by her cat. At four o’clock in the morning Grace woke up because of her
cat’s loud meowing or maybe yowling is a better word. Grace just wanted
to get some more sleep, so she put the cat outside, but then she smelled smoke
and knew she had to escape from the house. Grace was aggravated about being
woken up, but so thankful for being saved from the fire. The fire department
believes that lightning caused the fire, which caused about $115,000 in damage.
As for the cat, Boo Boo is going to get a special treat, a can of salmon.
If your house was on fire it would not matter to you
whether it was two in the afternoon or three in the morning; you would be
thankful if someone woke you up, and warned you of the danger. If you saw
someone’s house on fire, of course you would do all you could to alert the
family inside of the danger, and call the fire department too. If you needed to
you might even smash a window or knock down a door to save a life threatened by
a fire in a home. There would be no hesitation, and we would each do what we
could to the best of our ability to try to save them.
Spiritually there are countless millions, perhaps even
billions of people who are very close to facing an eternal spiritual death in
the burning fires of hell. What is the appropriate thing to do in order to
alert someone to their impending torment in eternity? If you were the one
facing death by fire wouldn’t you want someone to try to save you? Wouldn’t you
want someone to at least try to talk to you about what is ahead in your future?
If someone knew how you could avoid such a horrible fate as eternity in the
burning fires of hell, wouldn’t you want them to tell you?
Jesus, Paul, Peter, and the writer of Hebrews all speak
of the need for salvation. Why did they mention the need for salvation? Because,
there is something to be saved from. There is something to be terrified of, and
that terrible thing is called hell. We should be terrified of it because it is
exponentially worse than simply dying in a physical fire here on this earth,
because hellfire will never ever end, and it will go on and on eternally.
If your neighbor, or your parents, or your children, or
your co-workers, or your friends are lost and facing eternal damnation in hell
what should you do? What would you do if their house was on fire? Maybe you
ought to try to get their attention. Certainly, you should not be ashamed of
the gospel and never mention it, but then that is what majority of us do. This
is not something that you can put off and put off and never do anything about,
because there will come a day when they will slip out into eternity, and it
will be too late to tell them how to be saved.
Is there someone you need to warn? Maybe you need to do a
little "yowling" and try to wake them up before it is
everlastingly too late.
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