But beyond that, he died because he miscalculated. Yet I have done some pretty stupid things myself, although I am still here to tell about the other man's mistake. People do err in judgment, and we all know it. Yet this man's miscalculation was not his real problem. The intersection was clearly marked with a stop sign.
Some folks feel that traffic signals are but a nuisance and interfere with personal freedom.
They save us from the perils of high-speed misjudgments. The sign, if it had been heeded, would have saved this man from a senseless death and spared a new bride from becoming a new widow. It stands, instead, as a monument to his folly. We face similar problems in relation to spiritual and eternal matters. In spite of our inability to calculate correctly, we may be spared by taking Him at His Word.