Lost!

Connors Farm in Danvers, Massachusetts offers a variety of activities for families to enjoy.  One of those activities is walking through a seven-acre corn maze that has pathways totaling seven-miles long and can take up to an hour to navigate.

One family didn’t find the corn maze very enjoyable...

On Columbus Day, a family of four – including a father, mother, and two children (one of which was only three-weeks-old) – visited the farm and tried to navigate their way through the corn maze.  They were still trying to find their way through the maze when the sun set.  The darkness only made things worse.  So they called 911 (the police) for help!

“Hi, I just called.  I’m still stuck at Connor’s Farms.  I don’t see anybody.  I’m really scared, it’s really dark, and we’ve got a three-week-old baby with us,” the woman is heard on police tapes telling the dispatcher.

A police officer and his dog responded to the call for help, and accompanied by a farm manager, began searching through the maze to find the lost family.  It took about 10 minutes to find the family.  When they were found, it was discovered that they were only 25 feet from the street!

This family’s troubling experiences teach us something about our own condition…

Because of our sins, we are lost (Romans 3:23; 6:23)!  We cannot find our way out of sin’s “maze” – its misery and its condemnation – on our own.  We need help!  The prophet Jeremiah expressed this malady saying, “O LORD, I know the way of man is not in himself; It is not in man who walks to direct his own steps” (10:23).

But because of His great love, God has provided a way out of sin’s maze!  He has given us His Word with instructions as to how to escape the snare and punishment of sin.  The Psalmist proclaimed, “Your word is a lamp to my feet And a light to my path” (119:105).  Through the “light” of God’s Word, the way out of sin and darkness is revealed.

God’s Word reveals that JESUS is the Way out of sin and darkness. Jesus said, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life” (John 8:12).  Jesus paid the price for our sins – freeing us from the darkness and destruction of sin – when He died on the cross (Ephesians 1:7).  HE is the Way to salvation and eternal life (John 14:6).

Jesus will save those who place their faith and trust in Him (Acts 16:30-31), turn away from sin and to Him in repentance (Acts 17:30-31), confess Him before men (Romans 10:9-10), and are baptized (immersed) in His name for the forgiveness of sins (Acts 2:38; 22:16).

We need to heed Jesus’ admonition: “Walk while you have the light, before darkness overtakes you. The man who walks in the dark does not know where he is going. Put your trust in the light while you have it, so that you may become sons of light” (John 12:35-36).

Won’t YOU follow the Light and be saved?

David A. Sargent, Minister