Death Defying

The other day I watched some videos on parkour or freerunning.  This is a new hit with many younger people, mostly in Europe and Russia but also in the United States.  The concept is simple, find the shortest route between two points and take it.  If this includes climbing over buildings, jumping from rooftop to rooftop or doing many other such maneuvers, so be it.  Some of the videos online show much skill and indeed some of these young people have had gymnastics training.

 

To take matters even further there are also a sect of these youth who will climb radio towers, using no safety equipment, and once at the top they will take and climb over the edge, doing pushups or hanging from the steel frame in a death defying act.  When questioned about it most will give an answer that they enjoy the thrill and the rush of doing such things.

 

If one digs a little deeper you will find that there are news articles that some of these participants do not make the jump across the buildings.  Others fall to their death, some break their necks or injure themselves very badly.  This is the side that you do not typically see when you watch a carefully crafted video showing only the successes of the group in what appears to be movie style moves.  People have often done things like this, though this newest trend is much more dangerous than things of the past.

 

There have always been people who have done skydiving, extreme boat racing, mountain climbing, etc.  It is not the scope of this article to determine what a Believer may or may not do in terms of outdoor activities.  A Believer who is living righteously ought to know in their heart what is acceptable to Him or not.  There are also such careers that can have heavy risks, such as police, military, inner city taxi cab drivers and private plane pilots, to name a few.  I’ve read of an instance of a man whose job in the Israeli military was to diffuse landmines.  His testimony consists of how he was called for duty many times during his years and watched as his friends/coworkers would not be so lucky, but would get blown up, either being massively injured or dying in the process.  However, God watched over him and through His grace he succeeded in completing the tasks assigned to him during his military duties required of him.

 

However, dear reader, are you inadvertantly doing death defying activities? 

 

“There is a way which seems right to a man, but the end of it is the ways of death.”  Proverbs 14:12

 

Most people wouldn’t participate in the above activities mentioned but yet they try to defy the Most High God.  They refuse to listen to Him and refuse to repent and accept Salvation that is offered freely through His Son, Jesus Christ. 

 

“But the free gift is not like the offense. For if by the one man’s offense many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many.”  Romans 5:15

 

If you are one who goes about your life ignoring God, be ASSURED you are defying death each and every day.  Every breath that you take is one more breath that you defy the Most High God and you WILL be held accountable.  You will NOT be able to defy death, for there is NO defying death before your Creator.   

 

” For it is written: As I live, says the Lord, Every knee shall bow to Me, and every tongue shall confess to God.  So then each of us shall give account concerning himself to God.”  Romans 14:11-12

 

Whether or not you choose to acknowledge this fact, you will indeed stand before Him and you will be judged.  If you have not accepted Jesus Christ as your Savior, you will be cast into the Lake of Fire.  

 

” And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the Lake of Fire.”  Revelation 20:15

 

There is no skirting around it, no amount of skill that will prevent this from happening or any amount of worldly training that will prevent this outcome.

 

The facts are simple, either you accept Jesus as your Savior and serve the Most High God or you die the death and will spend eternity in punishment for doing so.

 

“And as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this the judgment…”  Hebrews 9:27