PAY ATTENTION TO THE STORM

PAY ATTENTION TO THE STORM

 The late great American evangelist, Dwight L. Moody, described rather troubling circumstance: “I was in the north of England in 1881, when a fearful storm swept over the country.  A friend of mine, a minister at Evemouth, had a great many  fishermen in his congregation.  It had been very stormy weather, and the fishermen had been detained in harbor for one week.  However, one day the sun shone brightly in a clear blue sky; it seemed as if the storm had passed so the boats started out for fishing grounds.  

 Forty-one boats left the harbor that day.  Before they started, the harbor-master hoisted the storm signal, and warned them of a coming terrible tempest.  He begged them not to go; but they disregarded his warning and away they went.  They saw no signs of the coming storm.  But in a few hours it swept down on that coast, and very few of those fishermen returned.  There were five or six men in each boat, and nearly all were lost in that dreadful gale.  In the church where my friend was pastor, there were only three male members left.  Those men were ushered into eternity because they simply failed to heed the warning.  I lift up the storm signal now, and warn you to escape from the coming judgment!” 

 Dwight Moody issued this sobering message pertaining to prevailing spiritual conditions.  It seems there is a current need for ‘spiritual harbor-masters’ to hoist red flags of warning regarding our current global circumstances and spiritual conditions.  My friends, it is high time for us to return to the biblical foundations of our faith, and to send fervent prayers upward that Almighty God would intervene with much needed healing for our people and our nations.

 Sisters and brothers, be continually blessed, and please (above all else) MAKE SURE YOU ARE READY TO MEET OUR SOON COMING KING. Maranatha!