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.