“A Crisis”
Take a leafy branch from a tree. Lay it carefully aside and watch it. Slowly
the color fades, the leaves go limp, curl up and then it is dead. Take a fish
out of the lake, lay it carefully on land and slowly it will get weak and then
it is dead.
Now, take a member of the church, carefully allow him or her to be separated
from God in worship, fellowship, prayer and active service and gradually
their conscience quivers as they miss some assemblies of worship. He
frets himself as he misses the Lord’s Supper. Soon he says there are too
many hypocrites in the church, they are always asking for money, etc. Soon
they take a stand against Christian living and then they are dead.
Did you know a cork can be pressed down 10, 50 or 100 feet below the
surface of the water and when released, it will come to the surface again?
But, if you take it down 200 feet or more, it cannot rise to the surface because
the pressure of the water on top of it counteracts its buoyancy.
In like manner, if you have not gone too deeply into the mire of sin, you
can rise again; but beware the day that you find your depth in sin so low
that you cannot rise again. This is the crisis the Hebrews author has reference
to in Heb. 6. It is possible to backslide so far that you will lose all desire
to repent…then you are dead.
Submitted by Gary Culbreath