DEAD END STREET!

Proverbs 16:24-25  “Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the bones. There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.”

 

This afternoon I had made a trip to the post office and was on my way home when I noticed a young woman slouched over speaking into a cell phone. She was not what caught my attention, however. My eyes were drawn to the sign she was leaning against. It read: DEAD END STREET.

 

Wow! That hit me like a ton of bricks. How many times do we see people around us who are on a dead-end street. We can come to many dead-end streets in our life when we fail to take the action that is necessary. Even though the sign cautions "dead-end" street, many times people fail to ignore the warning and have to come to a sudden stop at the end. At that time it’s either turn around or crash.

 

The words of Solomon in today’s Scripture are profound and true. We may listen to the sweet enticement to seek the pleasures of sin, but to do so inevitably leads us onto a dead-end street. Many lives, families, and ministries have gone down that dead-end street. Sad! Sad! The bitter wail!

 

But there is an option. If we find ourselves on a dead-end street, we need to immediately make a U-turn. In Scripture we find that U-turn described by one word…REPENTANCE! If you’re on a dead-end street, repent as soon as possible. As a teen we had an expression: “TURN! DON’T BURN!”

 

May God richly bless you as you bless others by your words and actions!   

- - - Pastor Cecil