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by Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
I
heard something over the radio a few weeks ago, the like of which I’ve
never heard before — and certainly never want to hear again. I heard the
last words of the pilot on No. 214, a big jet plane that crashed to
earth with 81 persons aboard.
Because
of the weather conditions the planes were “stacked” rather high around
the Philadelphia airport, so the airport tower had just asked him: “Do
you want to go on or do you want to hold?” The pilot had barely replied
that he wanted to “hold,” when he said something about his big Boeing
707 being on fire! Then came the awful words: “We’re going down. Two
fourteen is going down in flames.” He said it calmly, and the
Philadelphia tower answered back: “We have your message, two fourteen.”
Just
imagine, hearing the actual last words which the pilot uttered while he
and eighty others were being hurled more than 5,000 feet to their death
amid the flaming parts of their stricken plane!
Yet,
one does not have to be in a plane to meet death suddenly. He can
stumble off a curb and be killed or die suddenly in a hundred different
ways.
The
important thing is to be ready. We do not wish to frighten people into
accepting Christ as Savior, but it is a fact that we ought to think more
than we do about the uncertainty of life. Prov. 22:3 says: “A wise man
foreseeth the evil and hideth himself, but fools pass on and are
punished.”
No wonder Paul wrote in II Cor. 6:1,2:
“We
then as workers together with Him, beseech you also that ye receive not
the grace of God in vain…. Behold, now is the accepted time; behold now
is the day of salvation.”
We
cannot offer salvation yesterday, for yesterday is passed. Nor can we
promise it for tomorrow, for the opportunity may be withdrawn by then.
The best we can do is to tell you that God loves you, and that Christ
died for you, and urge you to act upon this now.
“Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved” (Acts 16:31).
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