Message for the week of June 15, 2025
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“I Know It!”
Along the coast of Nova Scotia (eastern Canada) is a shoal called, “I Know It.” A shoal is a sandbar that makes water dangerously shallow for boats. This shoal was even more dangerous because it held a large rock hidden under the surface. Here is how this shoal got its strange name.

Some men were sailing in a fishing boat near this place. One of the men warned his friend who was piloting the boat about this shoal. “I know it,” the man answered, but he went on without correcting their direction. A little later he was warned again, “We are near that shoal!” “I know it,” he said again. Right then they crashed onto the rock.

You might be thinking, “How silly that man was,” and you are right. Now, what about the warnings God has given you in His Word? The Bible says, “The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 6:23 NKJV). Do you answer, “I know it,” and go on without doing anything about it?

I met another man who was not willing to correct his direction. We had traveled a long distance to tell some people about the Lord Jesus and the way of salvation. One man we met told us, “You didn’t have to come all that way to tell me how to be saved. Since I was a boy I have known it.” He motioned with his hand to show us how small a boy he had been then, and then he repeated, ‘“Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved.’ Acts 16:31.” He knew how to be saved and could even quote a verse about it. But when we asked him, “And have you believed on Him, Sir?” he turned and went out the door without answering.

How sad! But many boys and girls learn verses and have Bibles of their own, yet have never trusted in the Lord Jesus for themselves. You may “know it,” but have you believed it? We can tell you more.

If you are already a Christian, the Bible has warnings for you, too — to stay away from evil. “My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent” (Proverbs 1:10). “Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of evil. Avoid it, do not travel on it; turn away from it and pass on.” (Proverbs 4:14-15). These are some of the warnings that God gives us so that if we obey them we can be happy Christians. John 13:17 tells us that we are happy if we do the things we know He wants us to do.

Adapted from Messages Of God’s Love, March 16, 2025, Bible Truth Publishers