Residents of some communities in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula are living with a hidden danger. In years past, thriving towns – places like Negaunee, Iron River, and Marquette – grew up around the great iron mines that fueled the economy. These mines are huge caverns carved beneath the surface of the earth stories deep and is supported by huge timbers anchored in the ground. But now, reports the The Detroit News, many of these timbers have rotted. Seeping water has gradually eroded the spots where the supporting pillars are anchored. If the timbers ever gave way, the mines would collapse and everything above or near them would be swallowed up by the gigantic holes that would form. The citizens of those former mining towns must therefore be on constant watch for the danger below.
David wrote about dangers of a different kind. He said the time would come when the wicked would fall into their own pit because of their ungodly ways. Oh, it may not happen right away. On the surface, everything may seem to be going well with people who disregard God. But the principle cannot be avoided: Anyone who continually disobeys the Lord is headed for a fall.
How important, then, to live by the principles of God’s Word. It’s the only way to escape the disastrous results of sin and to avoid the “danger below.” – David C. Egner
Why will you in the crooked ways
Of sin and folly go,
In pain to travel all your days
To reap immortal woe? – Shields
Sin undermines.
- August 23, 1988, Our Daily Bread
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