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by Cornelius R. Stam
Who would ever have thought that a mouse could force a modern airline to transfer 42 passengers from one big jet airliner to another and give the pilot and crew a sixteen-hour vacation?
Well, it happened in London recently. One of the "between flight" cleaners spotted a mouse on the New York-bound jet and reported it to his superiors, with the result that the 42 passengers were transferred to a plane leaving some hours later.
The British Overseas Airways Corporation said that they were doing this to de-infest and fumigate the plane. But -- all this: de-infest and fumigate the giant plane because of one little mouse? or even a few little mice?
Well, maybe, but do you know what I think? I think they foresaw panic aboard if some of the passengers should see that little mouse while they were in flight. Women don't exactly like mice and it wouldn't be good to have them standing up on seats or rushing for exits at 30,000 feet altitude!
Isn't it odd! They say a little mouse can scare a big elephant, and it isn't too different with the human race. Comparatively little things tend to frighten us, while too often we hardly notice great dangers.
The fact that "it is appointed unto men once to die," and that this can happen when least expected; the fact that after this life there will be no further opportunity to prepare for eternity; the fact that a just and holy God must judge sin (Heb. 9:27): these are the really important matters that so many people overlook in their mad scramble to enjoy life.
Let's get down to earth and be sensible and face the question our Lord asked in Matt. 16:26: "For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?" Let's stop living for this life as if it were never to end and for the next as if it were never to begin.
The Lord Jesus Christ died on Calvary to pay the penalty for our sins (I Cor. 15:3) so that we might be saved and sure of heaven. Why not trust in Him and receive "redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of His grace" (Eph. 1:7).
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