Sacrifice

Heard from David Jeremiah last Wednesday: just imagine that you were driving your car and in began to sputter … just as you were approaching a railroad crossing.  You pumped the gas pedal, but the engine coughed and stopped just as your front wheels stopped between the two train tracks.  You frantically turned the ignition key and the starter spun around but the engine just wouldn’t come to life.  Then you heard the train horn blast as a train came around the corner.  You no longer worried about starting the car, you thought only about getting out safely.  But your hands trembled, and you couldn’t get the seatbelt undone as the train drew closer and closer.  A man in a pick-up truck behind you saw your dilemma and decided to push your car off the tracks.  But the train was already upon you, and he just managed to push your car off the tracks before the train slammed into his pick-up truck killing him instantly.  As the train cars passed one by one, you realized that you were alive.  But you also realized the tremendous sacrifice that this total stranger had made for you.  He was dead, but you were alive.  And then you heard muffled giggling in the trunk of your car.  Your children had been playing hide and seek and, while your car was in the garage, your youngest child had hidden in the trunk of your car.  As you opened the trunk and gathered your child into your arms, you realized that this stranger had not only saved you, but he had saved your next generation too.  As you squeezed your child tightly your love for this stranger grew.  What a self-less gift.  Hey that is exactly what Jesus Christ did for you on the cross of Calvary.  Romans 5:7&8, “For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”