Warning

From time to time we see signs that read “WARNING” then the words may follow which tell us to “KEEP OUT.” I was working with a man years ago; when I was doing electrical work. He was in a room that had a sign on the door which read “WARNING HIGH VOLTAGE.” He was doing some work in that room but he being an electrician had just gotten too comfortable being around electricity everyday and thought that the ‘WARNING HIGH VOLTAGE’ didn’t really apply to him. He had entered the room with a big screw driver sticking out of his back pocket. He leaned over to work on something and must have forgotten about the screw driver in his back pocket. That is when the screw driver touched some high voltage wires and sparks went flying all around. When he shorted the wires out it kicked the main breaker and shut off all the electricity in an 8 story building, He would have been cooked had that not happened. That’s the problem we get too comfortable in life and don’t realize the warning signs and area’s we allow ourselves to enter. Warnings are on a pack of cigarettes and other tobacco products and they are put there in an effort to warn the public of the harmful effects of smoking. Unfortunately many fly by that warning and pay little or no attention to it. On T.V. we are introduced to different drugs that will help us if this or that is wrong with us but then they tell us that it may cause blood clots, vomiting, cardiovascular problems and in rare cases heart failure or heart attack and even death. And you want me to take this to get better? What sounds wrong with this advice?  There are all kinds or warning sign around you and I. We know we should get our life in order but I have plenty of time I am only 36, 42, 51…..and we put off what we know we need to do. Go to Church, give our heart to Christ, be sure that our sins are forgiven and be assured of our heavenly home. Many put off the inevitable in hopes they have more time. One day time will be no more for death is coming to all of us and the hour and the day we know not.

Proverbs 27:1  Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.

That’s a “WARNING” telling you and I that we may not be here tomorrow. There is a sign that says “WARNING HELL FIRE” now no one really expects to find themselves there but the Bible warns us not to harden our hearts.

Hebrews 3:15  While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts,…….

Hebrews 4:7  Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

No one expects or plans to go to hell but the Bible teaches us that Hell is getting larger:

Isa 5:14  Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure:…..

What’s the ‘WARNING”? Don’t get too comfortable living in this world without Jesus for death has crept up on many and caught them unexpected and not ready. Don’t be like the disciples:

Acts 1:11 ………   Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.

Luk 12:40  Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.

Are you “READY”?