Extreme Sport is nowhere near as dangerous as living a heartbeat away from death without knowing Jesus Christ as your Saviour. Ski-boarding off the summit of Mt Everest or Hanging Ten on a tsunami wouldn’t even come close. Going to sleep every night not even being certain of waking up the next morning is living on the edge of insanity.
I shake in my shoes when I remember that I lived until the age of 21 without having God’s assurance that my sins were forgiven. During my teen years I was one of six in a car that skidded off the road and rolled over. (No seatbelts back then.) I was confronted a number of times with venomous snakes, was charged by an enraged bull, was bashed by a huge thug, and was thrown headlong from the saddle of a bolting horse that propped suddenly … among other things.
I was nearly taken by a shark while mooring my boat, was threatened in the Philippines by a drugged soldier with a knife, was in a passenger aircraft struck by lightning over France and another one suddenly thrown sideways on the way to Hawaii by a 245 m.p.h. gust of wind (according to the captain). But these don’t count because when these incidents happened I had long been a Christian and so was ready to face death and Jesus Christ without fear of guilt and judgement. (No one who believes in Jesus now will ever face God’s judgement in this life or the next.)
For all you know, your next heartbeat might be your last. Am I trying to put the fear of God into you? Of course! “God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to the knowledge of the truth.” Jesus came to save sinners, not saints, and every one of us needs the grace of God offered us through the sacrifice of His Son Jesus on the Cross.
Better to risk offending you now than for you to reproach me on the Day of Judgement for not warning you of the coming judgement . If we were in each other’s shoes, I’d like to think you’d care enough to do the same for me. Ask God to make Himself real to you and He will just as He has for countless others. Maybe today is your time to get right with God. He is waiting, and His Time is always Now.