To the editor:

I believe Mr. Lim (Nov. 11) missed the point concerning Mr. Burkhead and God. What loving parent or friend would not warn someone of impending calamity? Out of love, God reveals to us His blessed way of living. He knows when we stray from His ways that harm and death result. Out of love, Mr. Burkhead is willing to be misunderstood, ridiculed and despised because he aligns himself with God and God’s unchanging (not evolving) ways.

God took all our rebellious ways and laid them on His sinless Son, so that we might go free, unpunished, to walk in abundant relationship with Him, now and forever. When we choose to reject the greatest gift in the universe — to say there is no God, no ultimate truth, to choose to go our own way — we choose a path of self-destruction.

Jonah, an Old Testament prophet, was given the task of warning his enemies that, if they didn’t repent and turn from their ways, they would be destroyed. Jonah didn’t want to do what God asked, because in Jonah’s words, “I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abundant in loving kindness and one who relents concerning calamity.” But eventually he obeyed; his enemies actually listened, repented and their destruction was thwarted. We should be so wise!

There are many one-way signs, and if ignored eventually a person (or nation) will run head-on into disaster. Heed the loving warning, neighbor.