But if you fail to do this, you
will be sinning against the LORD; and you may be sure that your sin will find
you out. Numbers 32:23
Lutz Buergi.
That's a name. And, quite frankly, the name Lutz
Buergi sounds very much like the lead driver in a German-Italian racing
consortium. You can almost hear the announcer say, "And in the poll position
today, driving a custom-made Mercedes Benz 890 is Italy's favorite driver: Lutz
Buergi."
Sadly, Lutz Buergi is not a race car driver. Lutz
Buergi is about as far away from a race car driver as it is humanly possible to
be.
Recently, 42-year-old Buergi showed up at an empty
parking lot in Bern, Switzerland. Bern's parking lot is a very big one, and it
was very empty. The only item in that very large, bare parking lot was a single
light pole.
Amazingly, Buergi somehow managed to miss all that
empty space and unerringly, accurately, and precisely drove his white Mitsubishi
Galant into that very pole.
It was almost as if the two were magnetically
attracted to each other.
Looking at the picture of Buergi's crash, it occurred
to me that most of us humans have no reason to laugh at his folly. That's
because we often do the same thing.
Given a choice between doing the right thing -- the
God-pleasing thing -- we choose to do the opposite. Even when doing the right
thing is the easier thing to do, we often choose that which is wrong and sinful.
If anybody needs evidence of that fact, all they need
do is look to the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl. There the folks on duty ignored
six different warnings to mess things up and cause a nuclear disaster. On a
lesser scale, I've been told if high-school and college cheaters put as much
time into studying as they do their elaborate cheating, they could easily do
well on a test.
Nope, we are sinners and, as our text from Numbers
says, our sin will find us out.
This is why we need Jesus, the Savior.
Most certainly He came to rescue us from sin, death,
and devil, but He also came to save us from ourselves. Jesus gave His life so
our lives might be forgiven of our sins and we could be made into special
people, saved people, God-pleasing people.
THE PRAYER: Dear Lord Jesus, each day I sin and for
that I beg forgiveness. Now I pray that You will send Your Holy Spirit to
transform me. Create in me a clean heart, a new heart, a changed heart that will
be reflected in my life, my choices, my actions, and my words. In Your Name.
Amen.
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