Feathers For Arrows

If I offered you a fistful of diamonds or a bucket of cold water, which would you take? The diamonds, of course; who in his right mind wouldn’t? But if you were crawling through a desert with blistered lips and a swollen tongue, dying of thirst, and I offered you a fistful of diamonds or a bucket of cool water, you would despise the diamonds and cry, “Give me water—or I’ll die!” That is called “circumstantial priorities.” Your priorities change according to your circumstances.

Christianity demands a choice between the sparkling diamonds of sin and the cool, clear water of everlasting life. Most people prefer the diamonds of sin, something quite normal for sin-loving humanity. But on Judgment Day their circumstances will radically change. They will find themselves in the desert of God’s Judgment, upon their faces, about to perish under the burning heat of a Creator who warns us that He is a “consuming fire.” They despised the Water of Life when it was offered to them in Christ. Now they must face eternal consequences. Those sparkling diamonds they so dearly clutch will suddenly be the glaring evidence for their condemnation.