Wednesday, as my wife was getting into our car, she said, “Is that a nail in our tire?” I looked and replied, “No, that’s a tiny rock stuck in the tread.” And I pulled out my pocketknife and picked out the rock. But another place on the tire caught my eye. I said, “But this is not a rock. It’s a screw.” And so it was. I didn’t attempt to pull it out because we had two more stops to make before we were home. But when we got home, I parked the car in front of the garage and turned the steering wheel to expose the tread on the passenger side tire. Then I rolled the car backward until the screw was just at “2 o’clock” on the tire where I could work on it. I turned on the air compressor, got out the air hose and air chuck, and found my tire-plugging supplies. I was ready. But when I removed the screw, it was only a half inch long and had not pierced the tire; it was just stuck in the rubber tread. I sprayed the area with 409 soap, but couldn’t detect any leak. My careful precautions and preparations were unnecessary. But I didn’t know that until I pulled out the screw. Hey, in life, we “prepare for the worst and hope for the best.” But what if there isn’t an after-life? What if the Bible isn’t true? What if I have wasted my life serving Jesus Christ? What if the atheist IS right? Well, let me turn the question around: what if the Bible IS true, and heaven IS real, and Jesus IS the only way to heaven? Hey, if I am wrong, at least I have lived a clean life. And I have lived a happy life. But what if the atheist is wrong? He has much more to lose … an eternity to lose! Mark 8:36, “For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” I’ll take my chances on Jesus. So … what about you?
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