Night on a Mountain Ridge
StoryAnalogy★★★★Demand for. A friend was recently overtaken by night on a mountain ridge. The path behind was too perilous to be retraced in the darkness, and the way in front was stopped by a projecting rock, which in his exhausted state he could not scale. His only alternative was to wait for the morning.
But his resting-place was a steep slope, ending in a sheer precipice. One careless movement might prove his destruction. As the darkness deepened, the danger was disguised. With a lessening sense of peril, there came on increasing drowsiness.
What efforts were his during those long hours to drive off sleep! How he had to stir up his mind to a conviction of the necessity of unremitting vigilance! For, should he once be overpowered, he might unconsciously slide down his sloping couch, and be hurled into the valley below. Such is our position.
If we would not fall down the precipice let us watch lest during slumber we slip along the treacherous incline.
The point
A friend stranded on a dangerous mountain ridge at night must fight off sleep to avoid sliding off a precipice, illustrating the need for constant spiritual vigilance against falling into sin.