the grand canyon

I've been to the grand canyon only once in my still short lifetime. It was a church trip, where I was a youth leader to way too many Junior High kids, a species of humans that will never be tamed. The view was amazing, practically unreal, until you peered down from the edge and realize that there is no mirage, just death, once you cross that threshold. I wonder how many lives are lost each year due to no guardrails! With as much dirt, and loose gravel along the edge of this great wonder, one wrong decision could carry you over the edge.

Often too many times, we let evil in so close that our judgment gets clouded and lost in its lies. Is sin really that powerful of a deceiver or are we that selfish with our desires that we make the choice to give into it? Evil is a destination, the fall to death from the edge of the Grand Canyon. It is so clear to us that we don't want to fall  but we get close to the edge anyways. Lies are believed and we convince ourselves that we can get closer and closer and will never fall. But people fall. There wouldn't be a Hell if people never fall.

Scripture is very clear about what is evil. It shouldn't come to us unrecognizable or as a surprise. If it does, then we need to get our head out of the clouds, find clarity through Christ and start preparing ourselves for what may come next. If we don't, that fall will come and it will be too late because we never thought to put up guardrails against it.