The man in the elevator was dressed in hunting attire.

"Going hunting?" asked another passenger in the elevator.

"Yep," said the hunter proudly.

"Got a dog?" asked the other passenger.

"Yeah," said the hunter, and then in a confidential whisper he added, "Getting my dog into this hotel was the slickest trick I ever pulled. Nobody saw us, and the dog is up there in my room right now! Are you a hunter too?"

"Oh no," beamed the other fellow with his best smile. "I'm the manager of this hotel!"

The hunter held his head down in surprise and shame. Dogs were not allowed in the hotel, but he had managed to sneak his dog in anyway, regardless of the rules. Then his own tongue gave himself away.

Many people today ignore God and break His laws and they seem to think they are getting away with something. They do not seem to understand that God sees and knows everything they do and say, and even knows their secret thoughts. Sad indeed, to see people living fast and loose, thinking they are pulling a slick trick and getting away with something, when God knows all about it.

What a surprise they have coming some day! God will certainly bring them into judgment; they are not getting away with anything at all. The reason God does not do anything about it right now is because He is "longsuffering to usward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance" (2 Peter 3:9). He loves you, dear friend, and He is patiently waiting for you to repent of your sins and receive Jesus Christ as your Saviour.

"He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy" (Prov. 28:13).

"For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved. He that believeth on Him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the Name of the only begotten Son of God" (John 3:17,18).