KneEmail - a devotional by Mike Benson associated with Forthright Magazine
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ON MARCH 20, 1980, MOUNT St. Helens in Washington, a supposedly dormant volcano, began to quake and rumble...
The local population was evacuated to a "safe" distance 8 miles away. Later, the side of the mountain began to bulge. Scientists were not alarmed because past research of volcanoes indicated that they never blew sideways.
Then on May 18 the side of Mount St. Helens exploded, shooting tons of debris downhill at the speed of 150 miles per hour. A minute later, the volcano exploded upward with the equivalent power of 500 atomic bombs! Two hundred thirty square miles of forest were devastated and 57 people lost their lives. The scientists had assumed that natural events would continue as before. But they were wrong (Dennis Fisher).
THOUGHT: The Bible tells us of a future time when a similar misplaced confidence will be destroyed by the fiery end of our world. The good news is God "...is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish...," (2 Pet. 3:9) and He is patiently waiting so that more people will find spiritual safety in His Son. Are you safe? More specifically, are you saved ( John 3:16; Acts 2:38; Rom. 10:9-10; 1 Pet. 3:21)?
KneEmail: "But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up" (2 Pet. 3:10; cf. v. 7).