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Our Hiding Place
Some
pioneers were making their way across one of the
central states to a distant place that had been opened
up for homesteading. They traveled in covered wagons
drawn by oxen, and progress was necessarily slow. One
day they were horrified to note a long line of smoke
in the west, stretching for miles across the prairie.
Soon it was evident that the dried grass was
burning fiercely, and the fire was coming toward them
rapidly. They had crossed a river the day before but
it would be impossible to go back to that before the
flames would be upon them. One man only seemed to have
an understanding as to what should be done. He gave
the command to set fire to the grass behind them. Then
when a space was burned over, the whole company moved
back upon it.
As
the flames roared on toward them from the west, a
little girl cried out in terror. "Are you sure we
shall not all be burned up?"
The
leader replied, "My child, the flames
CANNOT reach us HERE. . . .
for we are
standing "WHERE THE FIRE HAS
BEEN!" *
“For
the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all
ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress
the truth in unrighteousness" (Romans 1:18).
And, because of our sin, we are subject to His
wrath. Yet,
because of His love for us, God has provided a way of
salvation.
"But
God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while
we were STILL sinners, Christ DIED for us. Much more
then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall
be saved from wrath through Him. For if when we were
enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of
His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall
be SAVED by His life."
Jesus
“bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that
we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness;
by whose stripes you were healed" (1 Peter
2:24). He
took the punishment for SIN for us.
On Him Almighty vengeance
fell,
Which would have sunk a world to hell.
He bore it for a chosen race,
And thus becomes our
Hiding Place
.
--
Robert G. Lee
To
be found in Christ – our
Hiding Place
– we must: believe
in Him (Acts 16:30-31), turn to Him in repentance
(2 Corinthians 7:9-10), confess
Him before men (Romans 10:9-10), and be baptized
(immersed) into Him (Acts 2:38; Galatians 3:27), and
then continue to live for Him (1 John 1:7).
The
fires of God's judgment burned themselves out on Him,
and ALL
who are in Christ are safe forever, for they are NOW
standing
"WHERE THE FIRE HAS BEEN!"
Are
YOU safe in THE
Hiding Place
?
God
bless you!
David A. Sargent,
Minister
Church of Christ at Creekwood
1901 Schillinger Rd. S.
Mobile, Alabama 36695
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