It Is Not The Falls That Gets You; It Is What Happens After…

  On July 25, 1911, Bobby Leach became the

first man to go over the Niagara Falls in a barrel. Using an 8-foot-long steel barrel, he floated along the Niagara River. It took 18 minutes for Bobby to reach the Falls and another 22 minutes for someone to recover him once he plummeted to the base, where the barrel got stuck in the rocks. Bobby Leach survived but broke his jaw and both kneecaps. He spent the next six months in the hospital. Bobby eventually left the hospital and toured the world with his barrel. But as irony would have it, when he was six months into that tour he slipped on an orange peel and fractured his leg. His leg became infected had to be amputated. Two months later, Bobby Leach died of complications. He survived the Falls but not a fall.

  You never know what will happen. Just because we think we understand how life will go doesn't mean it will turn out that way.

Ecclesiastes 9:11-12

“I again saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift and the battle is not to the warriors, and neither is bread to the wise nor wealth to the discerning nor favor to men of ability; for time and chance overtake them all. Moreover, man does not know his time: like fish caught in a treacherous net and birds trapped in a snare, so the sons of men are ensnared at an evil time when it suddenly falls on them.”

  No matter how safe we are, no matter what precaution we take, death is ready at any moment to take any of us. The only thing that will prevent our deaths is if Christ returns before that. Either way we won't know until it is too late. That is why we must be prepared RIGHT NOW to deal with eternity!        We don't know what is awaiting us around the next turn. We won't know when to expect our time to come but we can be prepared for it whenever that happens! Chance happens to us all but don't take the chance you will lose your soul because of it!