A Safe Place To Stand
In the days of the westward expansion in north America, when men saw that a
prairie fire was coming, what would they do? There was no way for them to
outrun it guess the safe route out. The pioneers took a match, burned the
grass in a designated area around them, and then they would take their stand
in the burned area and be safe from the threatening prairie fire. As the
roar of the flames approached, they would not be afraid. Even as the ocean
of fire surged around them there was no fear, because fire had already
passed over the place where they stood.
Jesus said, "I have come to bring fire upon the earth, and how I wish it
were already kindled! But I have a baptism to undergo..." There is no
escaping the judgment and division (fire) that has come since Jesus'
sufferings on the cross (baptism). There is only one safe place to stand and
that is where the match of God's judgment has been struck: The foot of the
cross.
Brett Blair, www.eSermons.com, August 2001.
tags: Cross Cross × Heaven Heaven × Hell Hell × Judging Judging × Salvation Salvation ×