ALFALFA'S LADDER

If you're not old enough to remember the Little Rascals or Our Gang comedies, you've missed out. I don't know if it was great entertainment, but it was good clean fun. Unlike modern day shows for kids or even cartoons, you didn't have to worry about content or innuendo.

I'm not sure what this placard is from--movie or episode, but if you started to tell me what it was about, I could probably finish it. I know it wasn't biblical, though I do remember one where baptisms were taking place when the gang was camping out and a storm came up. It was a funny one. A little frightening, too.

But the title and the picture made this blogger think about a ladder and a Pay as You Exit. In Genesis 28:12 Jacob envisioned a stairway, a ladder to heaven with angels ascending and descending on it. The Lord spoke to him establishing a covenant promise.

A closer look reveals it was God coming to him during a very lonely, guilt-ridden time in Jacob's life. The stairway or ladder was the way of communication with a sinner and his God. In John 1:51, Jesus referred to this scene as He was the stairway. Furthermore He is the only way to God (John 14:6).

And as far as Pay as You Exit, well, we know who paid the steep, steep price for our sins. The ladder's still available to all. Don't be afraid to grab that first rung. And climb.