| A Message Let Them Perish |
| Let the miners perish!!! Imagine the thought. How cruel to even think it; to believe that we would not even care. To believe that someone could possibly even have such a thought. We look on in anticipation while they dig, trying to get to them. We see this with our eyes so we believe; it is real. We truly believe that these men are down in the pit. They are in the dark with no life lines, no ties to the outside world that sustains them; the world that gives them life. We have an urgency because we know that their time is running out. We know that they don't have much time left. We know that they need a savior, someone to pull them out of the pit. They cannot do it on their own. There is no way out for them....darkness, fear, hunger, thirst, death......all that they have; all that they can see around them. We see the world go by every day....all day long...and we just watch; thinking in our hearts that 'they are on their way to Hell'. Knowing that without a savior, without someone to die in their place, they are lost. They are doomed. All they can see is the dark world around them, and they do not even know that it is the darkness that they see, and that is what they believe gives them their life. They know fear, hunger thirst....they do not know what they are hungry for, they do not know why they thirst. They are empty, their hunger is insatiable, their thirst is unquenchable, they do not even recognize it and they try to satisfy themselves with all of the things of the earth. We know why they hunger. We know why they thirst. We have their answer. We have the power to pull them out of the darkness and into the light....yet we do nothing. Occasionally we may try to share the word..... Occasionally we go out and 'witness'. We think about it from time to time. We even hate ourselves for not doing anything more than we do, yet we cannot seem to go out and do it. We compromise our values day after day; time after time. We do things that we shouldn't. We make conscious decisions. We are pulled down with the rest, we say that 'we are not strong enough' or 'it's OK'. We see opportunities and we run. What if the rescuers had the same attitude? What if they decided that the miners need help, but someone else will get to them before it is too late, so it really isn't that important? What if they just simply gave up, think that there is really nothing that they could do for them anyway? Is it that we do not truly believe in Hell? Do we deny that time is running out? Do we believe that someone else will take care of it? Worse, do we simply not even care at all? God cared enough to send His Son to die on the cross, at our hands, to be our sacrifice. And we do not even care enough to share. We will tell no one. Why doesn't anyone care? Why doesn't anyone do anything about it? We can see the miners with our eyes. The families could feel them and touch them before they went into the mine; they knew them as the individuals that they are. We are aware of the physical dangers that they are faced with. We know that they are scared, hungry, thirsty. We know that they cannot live down in a hole forever, and that their time is truly running out. The rescuers truly believe that they are the miners only hope; and better, they believe that they can do something about it. They believe that they truly have a chance of doing something for them, of bringing them life. If we truly believe that there is a God, then why don't we share? If we truly believe that there is a Hell, then why do we let all these days go by while thousands; millions perish? The rescuers will not even sleep until they know that the miners are saved, yet we sleep even in the day. It is within our power to bring a lifeline to multitudes that are perishing. Their time is running out. Only their end will be eternal... The miners lives may be saved, we don't know. Even if they die, it is only the beginning. Those who die without Christ will spend eternity in Hell, being tormented forever. Why doesn't anybody care? Home |