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This is the city. Near tragedy strikes at 13th and Alder. A young adult
male shoots himself up with heroin and passes out in the front seat of
a drug dealer's car. A spoonful of cooked heroin sits in his lap, to
be his next hit when he comes to. In the backseat, his girlfriend's five-month-old
baby screams from its unbuckled car safety seat.
Police find a diaper bag full of needles and other drug paraphernalia
in the car, plus a pink, plastic makeup bag full of more needles. Inside
the dirt-encrusted vehicle, a gas can sits next to the baby. Thankfully
the infant is unhurt.
The officers try twice to rouse the young man. He taunts them as they arrest and handcuff him. "You're wasting your time. I'm going to be out of jail in two days." Turning to the few onlookers, he screams at the top of his lungs, "Whichever one of you ratted me out, you're just an ___!" They watch silently as he leaves in the patrol car.
So what's the near tragedy? That the baby could have been hurt? That the young drug abuser could have overdosed? That he might actually get out of jail in two days?
Not this time. The near tragedy is that you or someone you know could have turned out to be him or his girlfriend or the drug dealer who owned the car—all young adults going nowhere at breakneck speed. The good news is that as a Vertical Thought reader you know a better way of living, and you're learning about an incredible future and leadership opportunity that is yours for the seeking.
Way of life from God
Revealed in the Bible is the absolute moral code of the universe. This is a dogmatic statement, but you can prove it true. And you must verify it to be true in the face of direct and shrill opposition from an extreme, immoral popular culture that permeates most college and high school campuses and life in general. This culture wants your mind and body in the worst way—the worst, sexually corrupt, degraded and destructive way.
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