by Maxie Boren

It was a pitch-black night, illuminated only by the headlights of passing automobiles. At the wheel of a fast-moving vehicle, a drunken driver crosses the median into oncoming traffic, and then suddenly, the screeching tires, the dreadful impact! The two cars plunge down the embankment into heavy brush, nearly out of sight from the highway. But fortunately, a few people in trailing traffic witness the collision, and motorists commence stopping. One man, rushing and sliding down the embankment with heart pounding, is the first to survey the tangled steel and to hear the moans of the injured. But in the darkness, it's impossible to see, so he frantically calls to others who have gathered at the side of the highway, "Quick, somebody bring a light!"

Though the above is an imagined scenario for the sake of this article, yet we know that such can, and most likely does, happen. But my primary interest is to make a spiritual application.

In sin, the world has plunged itself into foreboding darkness! Comes the urgent plea, "Quick, somebody bring the light!" True Christians just must respond! We can't stand by with callused hearts and fail to help. We must carry the glorious light of the Gospel to a world that Satan has led into the pitch-blackness of iniquity!

Through the Gospel of Christ, and by proper example, we must TRY to illuminate the way for others! "The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day" (Proverbs 4:18).

Thanks to The Voice of Truth International, Vol. 34, pg. 63.

Thank you for sharing this with us. And I know I'm preaching to the choir as they say, but the statement, "We must carry the glorious light of the Gospel to a world that Satan has led into the pitch-blackness of iniquity," gives me a greater urgency to complete an article I'm writing for Christians called, The Wrath of God," from which we have escaped through Christ, our Lord. The problem is that we in the church speak so much of God's grace, mercy and love, yet his wrath is mentioned more often in both testaments than his love. And as David said, my couch is drenched with tears over the souls of man. If only they would understand what it is that they will face if they don't confess Christ, how dreadful, horrid, and sad, and we have the knowledge that can deliver them. Please Father, help each of us touch one soul, convince one to seek you. Peter 4:18 asks, “If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?” and Romans 5:9 says, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. 1Thessalonians 1:10 tells us to wait for His Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, [even] Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come. But, Revelation 6:17 ask the question, “For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand? Most of the people we know will not be able to stand, family members, neighbors, co-workers. My time in this world is extremely short, and I pray that each of you who read this comment will take it to heart and do what you can to help save a soul from death. Thanks...Steve

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