An Easter Story
One day during the 1930’s a man named John Griffin who controlled a railway drawbridge over the Mississippi river took his son to work with him.
After putting the massive bridge up Griffin was eating his lunch when suddenly he heard the whistle of the Memphis Express roaring towards the crossing.
Leaping from the observation deck he ran to throw the control switch to lower the bridge.
Glancing down his heart stopped! His son had fallen into the gears Trapping his leg in the cogs. Desperately he tried to devise a rescue plan. But there was no time.
His son was down there — but there were 400 passengers on the train!
Griffin knew what he had to do, burying his face in his arm he pushed the master switch just in time to lower the drawbridge into place as the train thundered across.
Then raising his head he looked into the passing windows with tear-filled eyes. There were businessmen reading their newspapers, ladies sipping coffee and children eating ice cream.
Nobody even looked at the control room or glanced at the great gearbox. In agony Griffin cried out, “I sacrificed my son for you people. Don’t you care?”
But the train rushed on and nobody heard the anguished father’s words.
At Easter time we consider the Cross, where God sacrificed His son for you and me. God is asking you today the same question: I sacrificed my son for you people. Don’t you care?
Will you, like the passengers on the train, rush by without a thought or care for the one who sacrificed his life that we might be saved from our sinful nature?
Or will you take just a little time this Easter to reflect on and respond to God who loved you so much that he sent his son, Jesus, to die for you?
Please care!