Air conditioning is a wonderful thing on a sweltering summer afternoon. Circumstances depend on whether you’re working indoors in comfort, or outdoors on a blistering roof! Being thirsty may be a matter of being uncomfortable or suffering from heat exhaustion! Depends on one’s location doesn’t it? There’s often a fine line between an emergency and a situation.
Hospitals perform a service known as triage. It’s a quick diagnostic method of determining if an injured person is in imminent danger, and needs immediate medical help. A person suffering from a heart attack would receive treatment before one suffering from a broken arm. Both are in pain, but one is in danger of death. Priorities dictate that the one closer to death take precedence. When two individuals come seeking medical attention at the same time, the general rule is to treat the one nearest death first.
What about all those people walking through life; who is nearest death? Some are minutes away from an emergency, some are years away.
At Golgotha, when two men were crucified with Jesus, there was no hope for those condemned men. They were dying. One man saw the urgency, and asked Jesus to remember him, Jesus said, “I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise.” (Luke 23:43) Both men had their legs broken and died soon thereafter. Who received triage first, the man nearest death, or the man who feared to ask for help? One man was looking inward; one was not!
Bottom line
It’s like being in a game of poker and someone asks you are you “in” or are you “out”? Are you willing to gamble on your salvation?
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