What does Easter mean to you?
Is it nothing
to you, all you who pass by?... Lamentations 1:12
One day during the 1930s, a man named John Griffin
who controlled a railway drawbridge over the Mississippi river, took
his son to work with him. After putting the massive bridge up, Griffin
was eating lunch when suddenly he heard the whistle of the Memphis
Express roaring towards the crossing. Leaping from the observation deck
he ran to throw the control switch. Glancing down, his heart stopped!
His son had fallen into the gears, trapping his leg in the cogs.
Desperately he tried to devise a plan. But there was
no time. His son was down there, but there were 400 passengers on the
train. Griffin knew what he had to do. Burying his face in his arm, he
pushed the master switch just in time to lower the bridge into place as
the train thundered across.
Then, raising his head he looked into the passing
windows with tear-filled eyes. There were businessmen casually reading
the newspaper, ladies sipping coffee and children eating ice cream.
Nobody even looked at the control room, or glanced down at the great
gearbox. In agony Griffin cried out, 'I sacrificed my son for you
people. Don't you care?' But as the train rushed by, nobody heard the
anguished father's words.
As we consider the cross where God sacrificed His
Son for each of us, He's asking, 'Is it nothing to you, all you who
pass by?' Our question then becomes: 'What ... shall I do with Jesus
who is called Christ? ... ' Matthew
27:22 Today, accept Him as your Saviour and Lord.
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