Driving through the mountains of North Carolina, winding my way carefully along a narrow, circuitous mountain road, I looked up and saw painted on a rock, large white letters: PREPARE TO MEET THY GOD – READ JOHN 3:16.

Fortunately, I already knew John 3:16; but I shuddered at the thought of some other motorist madly thumbing through his Bible trying to find John 3:16 when he should have been watching the road! Right after I saw the painted religious rock, the next hairpin curve took me to the very edge of a cliff before the road wound on around the mountain. That sign was put there knowing that I would come to the cliff. Prepare to meet thy God - because who knows? Perhaps around the next curve your tire will blow, or the breaks will give way, or a rock wil1 come crashing down and you will…