“A Storm Is Coming!”
Matthew 3:7
I spent a sixteen-month tour in Korea when I was in the Army in 1961- 1962. I remember anticipating the literal weeks of rain that the Monsoons brought in, day and night. I had never seen so much mud and water for the better part of three months. And then the weather would go from one extreme to the other. The winter came and I had never experienced such cold, and then when spring and summer came, heat exhaustion and heat stroke brought down many of us, it is not a pleasant experience to go through.
On the way back from my tour of duty, we stopped in Japan for a 24 hour period, it was the month of August, typhoon season, and sure enough, leaving out of the Bay of Japan from Yokohama, we headed straight for a curtain of blackness about a day out in the sea; I had never seen such a hard rain and wind. The waves began to get bigger and stronger, the ship began to make weird noises, it would actually go completely under water, it would roll, and pitch and I’ll never forget praying, though I was lost, God help me get through this and I’ll do anything you want. But when things smoothed out, I forgot all about the promises to be a better person and so on. Friend, if you are lost or your life is not what it should be for Christ, you are headed for a storm. Repent quickly, for God’s wrath is riding behind His mercy, the tempest will rage, the flood of fire is coming upon the lost that have rejected Him; Look about you, the wind is howling, the rain is just over the horizon, flood gates will soon break forth with damning destruction. O sinner, come in before the storm, because after it begins, no mercy is extended.
“Where”
Where, O sinner, will you hide your head?
Where on earth will you flee?
The saints will fly, the storm will rage,
And the sinner will find no mercy.
~Tom Milam
Daily Jewel:
“....Gods wrath is riding behind His mercy.....”
Bible Reading Schedule: Numbers 26-27
Weekly Memory Verses: II Timothy 2:11-15
2 Timothy 2:11 It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him: 12 If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us: 13 If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself. 14 Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers. 15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
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