The Great Escape

“For we also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another. But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared, He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by His grace we would be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.”
Titus 3:3-7

Harry Houdini was a master escape artist. Tied by chains and ropes and placed in confining quarters, he could be counted on to free himself from his predicaments. One day Houdini did not escape - but died.

Although the unbeliever may invent all kinds of escape devices to deal with his life on earth - drugs, vacations, riches, pleasures, good works - he never can escape eternal death. Born in sin and alienated from the Source of life, the Lord Jesus Christ, man is bound by the chains of death. All of his attempts to avoid the divine decree of eternal punishment are utterly futile.

There is only one path of escape from the judgement of everlasting separation from the God of the ages - personal faith in and reliance upon the Savior, Christ Jesus. The instant a person turns to Christ to forgive his sins, he has made the great escape from eternal death into eternal life. What an escape. From darkness to light. From despair to hope. From futility to meaning. From the domain of Satan to the kingdom of God (Col. 1:13-14).

Have you looked to Christ as your only escape from sin’s penalty of death? If not, run to the cross today - where Jesus shed His blood to pay for all of your sins - to receive your everlasting liberation.

“For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men...” 1 Timothy 2:5