A SHELTER IN THE TIME OF STORM It has not been long when it was reported in the news that a sixty year old woman in the Upper West region of Ghana was gathering Shea nuts in a Shea trees farm one afternoon; it began to rain heavily. So, she decided to find a shelter under one of the Shea trees. Unfortunately, the strong winds forcibly uprooted the Shea tree and it smashed the woman to death. So, “her shelter became her grave” said the news. It’s very sad indeed; however, I want to ask you this question – What always become your shelter in the time of the storms in your life? Be it storms of spiritual problems, always having bad dreams, financial constraints which even make it difficult to eat, marital problems etc. Unfortunately, in the same way this woman found a wrong shelter, some of us find our shelter in talisman, friends, money, cars, buildings; some have even sold their souls to the devil for riches. But I want to passionately say that these are wrong shelters – they can become your grave. How many people have died through car accidents, building collapse, friends killing them etc.? Many have died through these wrong shelters. Beloved, this moment, I want to introduce to you a never failing shelter. A shelter you can lean on when times get rough in your life. David says in Psalm 61: 2, 3, “Hear my cry O God; attend unto my prayer for thou hast been a shelter for me…” God is the ultimate shelter. “It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man.” “Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we will remember the name of the Lord our God.” Psa. 20:7. E.G. White writes, “When the tempests of temptation gather, and the fierce lightning flash, and the waves sweep over us, we battle with the storm alone, forgetting that there is one who can help us. We trust to our own strength till our hope is lost, and we are ready to perish… He never fails to give us the help we need. Whether on the land or on the sea, if we have the Savior in our hearts, there is no need of fear. “The Desire of Ages pg. 336 May the Lord bless you.
Posted on: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 05:21:50 +0000
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