If you ride the tube in London, the phrase "mind the gap" soon becomes ingrained in your memory. Whenever you get on or off the train you hear a recorded voice continually reminding you of the dangerous gap that awaits unsuspecting and distracted travelers.
This little phrase has become very popular and can be found on t-shirts, has been the title of soundtracks and individual songs, and is used in various video games in the UK.
It is a good phrase to remember and to repeat as we travel in this world - we face an impossible gap between our sinful selves and a perfect Almighty God. Since Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden, there has been a gap. We can't cross it on our own. It's only through the blood of Christ that we are able to "mind the gap" and safely begin our journey.
"When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished and asked, "Who then can be saved?" Jesus looked at them and said, "With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible" (Matthew 19:25-26).
“The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.”
This approach appears to take the higher grounded by declaring God too kind to punish the guilty. Actually, the true depth of God's kindness is seen not in His hesitance to punish man but in His willingness to take man's punishment upon Himself. What Christ accomplished on the cross allowed God to be both kind and just.
"Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you are proved right when you speak and justified when you judge" (Psalm 51:4).
Illustration Exchange
Someone has suggested that one of the greatest evidences for the existence of God is His beauty.
Have you ever snorkeled off the coast of a tropical island? Or have you peered into the saltwater aquarium of your local pet store? Have you ever visited a botanical garden and soaked in the beauty of a thousand varieties of flowering shrubs and plants? Ever stood on the edge of a vast chasm, gazing into rugged rocks and hills and valleys and canyons?
"The beauty of the cosmos," it has been said, "is God's signature. He could have made an ugly world and a loathsome universe. But He is a God of beauty, and we must worship Him in the beauty of His holiness."
"O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth" (Psalm 96:9, KJV).