Would you stop to consider?

John Griffin who controlled a railway drawbridge over the Mississippi River, took his young son to work with him one day. After putting the massive drawbridge up, Griffin was eating lunch then suddenly
he heard the whistle of the Memphis Express roaring towards the crossing. Leaping from the observation desk, he ran to throw the control switch. Glancing down, his heart stopped! His son had fallen into the gears, trapping his leg in the cogs. Desperately he tried to devise a rescue plan, but there was no time. His son was down there but there were four hundred passengers on the train! Griffin knew what he had to do. Burying his face in his arm, he pushed the master switched just in time to lower the bridge into place as the train thundered across.
John Griffith lifted his tear-stained face and looked into the windows of the passing train. A businessman was reading the morning newspaper. A uniformed conductor was glancing nonchalantly as his large vest pocket watch. Ladies were already sipping their afternoon tea in the dining cars. A small boy, looking strangely like his own son, pushed a long thin spoon into a large dish of ice cream. Many of the passengers seemed to be engaged in idle conversation or careless laughter. No one even looked his way. No one even cast a glance at the giant gear box that housed the mangled remains of his hopes and his dreams.In anguish he pounded the glass in the control room. He cried out “What’s the matter with you people? Don’t you know? Don’t you care? Don’t you know I’ve sacrificed my son for you? What’s wrong with you?” No one answered. No one heard. No one even looked. Not one of them seemed to care. And then, as suddenly as it had happened, it was over. The train disappeared moving rapidly across the bridge and out over the horizon.

On this Good Friday as we consider the cross where God sacrificed His Son for each of us, He is asking, 'is it nothing to you, all you who pass by?

Wouldn't you look at God's sacrificial lamb?

Would you consider Jesus?

Culled from A word for Today 25/03/16 (edited)