At Lightning Speed!
"The Lord thundered from
heaven… He sent out His
arrows and scattered the foe."
Psalm 18: 13-14
Jacob Knapp was a preacher in the 1800s. One day
in Rochester, New York, he announced he was going
to preach against the sins of the local gambling dens.
The church was packed with supporters, but a mob
of a thousand people surrounded the building.
A stone whizzed through the window to the pulpit,
and then a flash of lightning and a blast of thunder
caused all inside and outside the church to jump.
The same sequence occurred a minute later
as though the Lord was fighting the protesters,
blow by blow, with lightning bolts and peals of
thunder. The crowd ran in fear, and Knapp
preached his
sermon.
We never know how often the Lord takes our
side and watches our back. There’s no
safer
place than in the center of His will and no
greater message than the Gospel of His
Son.
Don’t fear the mob.
Serve the
Master!
"No one regrets, at the hour of death,
that he had felt too much, given too
much, or done too much for Christ,
or to save souls."
Jacob Knapp