The Game of Chicken

October 14th 1962, an American U-2 spy plane photographed a Soviet ballistic missile being assembled in Cuba.  President Kennedy then sent a naval blockade to intercept the Russian fleet headed to Cuba.  Had Russia crossed that blockade line, the world would have been a different place. Alas, they did not and an agreement was reached.

In the Bible. Solomon was trying to decide which mother was the rightful one of a certain baby, both claiming that the child was theirs.  Solomon ordered that the child be cut in half so that each would have the same amount.  The real mother interjected and wouldn't let him do it, which revealed the true birth mother of the child to Solomon.

Last Sunday, I lost a friend due to a sudden and massive heart attack.  His life was marked with a love for baseball, a strong sense of right and wrong, and a unique ability to tell someone exactly what he thought of them but share a beer and laugh afterwards.   

God has used the death of my friend as a reminder to this verse: 'Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow.  What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes' (James 4:14).  

John F Kennedy said it well:  'For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal'

The Bible teaches that we are all God's creation, designed in His image.  He wants an eternal relationship with each of us  but sin prevents us from the presence of a holy God. God sent Jesus to cover the cost of sin and restore God's eternal relationship with us. As your friend I implore you to examine the scriptures and don't play this game of chicken with your life. As surely as there is an eternity with God, there is also an eternity without Him.  

'Choose for yourself whom you will serve... But as for me and my household, we will serve The Lord (Josh. 24:15).

Grace & Peace

PLW

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