Fatally Wounded

During the attack on Pearl Harbor, nurses ran out of marker and so they used their own lipstick to write on the foreheads of wounded patients. “M” meant a sailor had received morphine. “C” meant he was in critical condition. “F” meant he was fatally wounded.

Imagine nearly all of the people you meet in your daily walk have a letter “F” on their foreheads. They are fatally wounded by sin (Romans 3:10, 23; 6:23) and its effects. Will you simply stand by and watch them perish, or will you offer them the only life-giving, soul-saving, cure (1 Corinthians 15:1-4)? “Let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and cover a multitude of sins” (James 5:20; cf. Jude 23).

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