KneEmail - a devotional by Mike Benson associated with Forthright Magazine
Fire
YEARS AGO SOME soldiers at Ft. Dix were fighting in a forest fire...
They were out in the forest with the flames all around them when a plane flew over unexpectedly. The unidentified pilot flew very low over the firefighters and began to drop notes with weights tied to them. Three times he did this. This is what the notes said - "You are surrounded by flames and you are going to perish unless you take action immediately. There is one narrow corridor left open and that is your only escape, before long it will be cut off." The firefighters read the note, obeyed it and their lives were saved.
A message came from above and told them something they could not know in the midst of the smoke, heat and furor. Thankfully the firefighters did not question the authenticity or reliability of the note, they acted on it by faith, they acted on it in time and they were saved.
THOUGHT: What a picture of our society today. We are in a fire storm of trouble, we are in an inferno of problems. We face a rising tide of violence, the horrible disease of aids, just to name a few. God has given us His message from above and there is a way to escape and to live for him in an X-rated society. (Stan Coffey)
KneEmail: "But others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire, hating even the garment defiled by the flesh" ( Jude 1:23).