The inhabitants of the little village of Tormery in Savoie were afraid to go to sleep. Towering high above them on the mountain side was an enormous mass of rock measuring 8,000 square yards. It was known as the Rock of Tormery. Recent heavy rains had softened the base and it had begun to move. It was now completely detached from the northern side of the mountain of which it formed a part; and once the bed of rock on which it rested gave way, nothing could save the inhabitants of the village.
What a striking illustration is this of the condition of the sinner out of Christ.
Just as the inhabitants of the village of Tormery were in momentary danger of destruction through that mass of moving rock which towered over them, so the sinner who has not fled for refuge to the Lord Jesus Christ is in imminent danger of the wrath of God. When he arises in the morning, as he goes about his daily affairs, even when he goes to bed at night, wherever he may be, whatever he may be doing, the wrath of God is hanging over his head.
The wrath of God against sin has been borne by Christ on the cross, and every one who believes in Him is saved from it now, and will be delivered from it for all eternity; but the unbeliever is exposed to it every day, and all the day. If he dies in his sins he will have to endure it throughout eternity. Oh come to Christ now, and thus
FLEE from the WRATH to Come!