I ONCE read of a wonderful tree that grows in the East Indies. This tree is a not-conductor of lightning; that is, it has some strange power in it which prevents the lightning from striking it. They have dreadful thunderstorms in that country, and the lightning flashes, and strikes other trees in the neighborhood, but it never touches this tree.
In England it would be very dangerous to stand under a tree during a thunderstorm, but it is different in that country, and when the people see a storm gathering they leave their houses and get under the shelter of this tree for safety. And they always find it there. No matter how severe the storm, the lightning never strikes that tree, and nobody under the shadow of it is ever hurt.
Children, do you know that you need a shelter?
There is a terrible storm coming. Where will you hide?
We read in Isaiah 32, that “a Man shall be as a hiding place.” The Lord Jesus is willing to be your shelter. Will you not come to Him? If you trust Him you will be safe when the storm of God’s judgment sweeps over this guilty world. But if your sins are not forgiven you will be in the storm without shelter.
Now you may find in Christ a hiding place. He is waiting to save you. But if you will not come to Him now, one day you may be like those, of whom we read in Revelation 6, who try to hide from His face, and from His wrath.
What a terrible picture it is! No shelter then.
O, dear children, “today if ye hear His voice, harden not your hearts.”
Remember that there is no other shelter for you.
Jesus said, “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life; no man cometh unto the Father but by Me.”
ML 08/30/1903