A Second Chance (KJV)

Jesus] under heaven, given among men, whereby we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). Jesus said, “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me” (John 14:6). Notice also that each of the nine miners was brought up in the capsule individually. Each one had to trust himself to that device and the crane operator’s skill if he was to be saved from certain death. Likewise, each one of us must believe for himself that Christ died for his sins, and trust that finished work alone for deliverance from certain eternal death. No one can believe for another. Salvation is a personal experience between the sinner and Christ the Saviour. “Nine for nine” became the motto for the trapped, and subsequently rescued, miners. It is God’s desire for “all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth” (1 Timothy 2:3,4). Are you saved? “The Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost” (Luke 19:10). One of the miners said a few days after his rescue, “I got a second chance at life, and I don’t want to blow it. I don’t want to blow it.” Everyone who hears the gospel of God’s grace gets an opportunity to receive eternal life. I trust that no one who has read this account will “blow it” when it comes to your soul’s salvation. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ now and you will be saved (Acts 16:31). To wait until Christ comes or death overtakes you is to “blow it.” To reject or neglect God’s offer of full and free salvation and be forever lost and separated from God in the darkness and suffering of an eternal hell is to “blow it.” Heed the warning as given by the trapped miners, “Get out NOW! Don’t wait!” By believing in your heart what God says about your sin, and about the work of Christ on Calvary’s cross for you, then you can say, “He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings” (Psalm 40:2). —Tim Johnson