They weren’t blind but they might as well have been. Three mice looking for a winter home decided the ventilation fan in my sister’s Toyota looked like a nice dark secure refuge from the winter storms. I think the end came quickly. Surely they never knew what happened when she turned on the fan. We didn’t either until the grinding noise caused us to open it and find their body parts.
How could I not think of Paul’s counsel in I Thessalonians 5. He wrote,”For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. For when they say, ‘Peace and safety!’ then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape. But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief. You are all sons of light and sons of the day. . . For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him.”
A Bible story I learned when I was very little was about Joseph storing away grain during the seven years of plenty. Most of us seem to be optimists and bask in good times not thinking they will end. Alas, the plight of humanity is hard times will come and those who have prepared will survive. The problem is knowing how to prepare. Jesus assures us in John 10, “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand.” Now that’s a safe place.
Written by Roger Bothwell on November 11, 2009
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