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Imagine buying tickets for your family to go and see the Circus that has come to your city. When you arrive, the clowns outside the entrance to the big tent direct you and your family to visit the sideshows. They tell everyone - you've got plenty of time before the Main Event! Come see the cigar smoking dwarf! Come see the tallest man in the world! This is your chance! You'll never see such a sight again! Believing he is directing you the right way, you take your family to see the smoking dwarf, the tallest man in the world, you participate in the various games, the ring toss, the floating ducks, the pop gun moving targets, and a man with a microphone guessed your weight! Your child speaks up and says, We had better go to the big top to see the circus show now. We've seen all there is to see already! You agree and you and your family are now off to the Main Event! When you enter the big tent all the seats were empty. The ring is empty, not a lion, a tiger or bear in sight. No trapeze artist, no elephants, you and your loved ones have just missed the main event.
A side show is exactly what the name implies. Something on the side / an addition. According to Barnum Bailey Circus - of all the many thousands of posters that are memorabilia of the circus's golden era fewer than a dozen feature a "side show." When God removes the veil and we see clearly what our lives have been focused on, will we be able to say that we did not miss the "Main Event"?
The Main Event is Jesus Christ. The world is perishing because they have been taken captive by the side shows of life that are keeping them from the Main event. The reason we are here is to have a relationship with Jesus Christ. Everything else comes out of that relationship. It is one thing to miss the main event at the circus and entirely another to miss the most important event of our life. Knowing Jesus Christ and enjoying His presence every day. Walking in His Will. God has a plan and a purpose for every life. You must come to Jesus to find out what it is. Do not let life distract you and tell you that you can call on the Lord at a later time. Today is the day of Salvation. Today.
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