TERRORIST FACTIONS...EBOLA...INJUSTICE...it seems this is just the start of all that is going on.
Many of us are thinking of what we will do if this Ebola threat we are hearing about will come through our area. Perhaps you are reading this in the town it's currently in. It is surrounding the states where I live, and it seems to get
closer and
closer with every news report. We hear about the terrorism threats by terrorist factions. We begin to wonder what our world is coming to, and will there ever come a day when there will be
peace on earth like we read about in the Bible. I think of a story that Charles Haddon Spurgeon shared about the time his neighborhood was enduring an illness of which I will let
him describe:
In the year 1854, when I had scarcely been in London twelve months, the neighbourhood in which I laboured was visited by Asiatic cholera, and my congregation suffered from its inroads. Family after family summoned me to the bedside of the smitten, and almost every day I was called to visit the grave. I gave myself up with youthful ardour to the visitation of the sick, and was sent for from all corners of the district by persons of all ranks and religions. I became weary in body and sick at heart. My friends seemed falling one by one, and I felt or fancied that I was sickening like those around me. A little more work and weeping would have laid me low among the rest; I felt that my burden was heavier than I could bear, and I was ready to sink under it. As God would have it, I was returning mournfully home from a funeral, when my curiosity led me to read a paper which was wafered up in a shoemaker's window in the Dover Road. It did not look like a trade announcement, nor was it, for it bore in a good bold handwriting these words:
"Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation; there shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling." The effect upon my heart was immediate. Faith appropriated the passage as her own. I felt secure, refreshed, girt with immortality. I went on with my visitation of the dying in a calm and peaceful spirit; I felt no fear of evil, and I suffered no harm. The providence which moved the tradesman to place those verses in his window I gratefully acknowledge, and in the remembrance of its marvellous power I adore the Lord my God.
Psalm 91 is one of my favorite Psalms, especially in days like the days we are experiencing, when pastors are being threatened over their sermon notes, when people call evil good, and good evil; days of famine, fanatical factions, and foul health. Yes, it is a lovely thing to read some of the verses in this special Psalm:
Psalms 91:3, "Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence."
Psalms 91:5-7, "Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; [nor] for the arrow [that] flieth by day; nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee."
Psalms 91:10, "There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling."
Isn't it a wonderful thing to be able to claim such verses? Dear friend, we are
certainly living in
UNcertain days. The promises I just mentioned can't just be owned by
anyone. They can only be owned by God's children. Have
you been born again? You may say, "I know The Lord," but the
real question is,
Does He know you? That's the most important part. There are
lots of children who could look at me and say,
that's my dad. But there are only
four that
I will claim are my sons. There's a
wonderful verse in 1 John 3:1 that says, "Behold, what manner of
love the
Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called
the sons of God." But this cannot be so for you until you are born again! Jesus said very clearly to Nicodemus, "Except a man be
born again he
cannot see the kingdom of God." My friend, I'm not asking if you've been baptized, or if you go to church, or if you're Catholic, Methodist, Episcopalian, Pentecostal, or Baptist. I'm not asking if your dad was a deacon, or if your husband is a preacher...or if
you are...I'm asking,
Have you ever been born again? If you're not sure, you can
be sure today! CLICK HERE to find out
how you can
know you're saved! There are things written in the Bible that will help you to
know. In fact, 1 John 5:13 says, "These things
have I written unto you...that
ye may know that ye have eternal life." My friend, wouldn't you like to know? Ebola is a terrible epidemic; but there have been worse. The greatest epidemic that has continued for thousands of years, and still rules today is the
sin epidemic.
You're infected with it, and so am I. The Bible says, "Wherefore as by one man, sin entered into the world,
and death by sin, and so
death passed upon all men for that
ALL have sinned." But the Bible also says, "But as many as
received him [Jesus], to them gave He power to become the
sons of God [
There it is again!], even to them that
believe on His name." My friend
CLICK HERE if you'd like to
know in the midst of all that is going on about you, that you have
eternal life. Many have chosen to ignore their need to know...but there are
few who have made the right decision. Won't you be one of the few? To the rest of you who
know; Fan the Flame and compel friends you
know are LOST to read this post!
