Friday, April 30

No Place to Hide

The kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men, every slave and every free man, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains.
Revelation 6:15

Paul Landgraf, 92, is one of the last survivors of Pearl Harbor. On December 7, 1941, he was standing at the main gate waiting to be transported off the island, two days from ending his military service. "We start hearing the pop, pop, hey something's wrong here...," he recalled. It was a blur of fear, excitement, and confusion. The terrifying thing, he said, was having no place to hide. "It all happened so quickly, and then when the planes disappeared and we had to fight all these different fires and help ships that were sinking."¹

When Jesus comes again, there will be no hiding for those who reject the God of the universe. They will experience devastation and destruction beyond our imagining, calling out to the rocks and hills to fall on them and hide them from the wrath of God and of the Lamb.

But we have a hiding place in Christ. "You are my hiding place; You shall preserve me from trouble; You shall surround me with songs of deliverance" (Psalm 32:7).

Praise God for Jesus, the only safe Hiding Place.

The Lord's our Rock, in Him we hide, a Shelter in the time of storm.
Vernon J. Charlesworth

¹“Pearl Harbor Remembered: Veterans Mark 68 Years with Event Today,” at guampdn.com/article/20091206/LIFESTYLE/912060321/1024/Pearl-Harbor-remembered-Veterans-mark-68-years-with-event-today, accessed December 15, 2009.

Read-Thru-the-Bible
1 Chronicles 19:1-22:19