A TERRIBLE storm had descended and the ship seemed lost. Most of the passengers were terrified. Among them and one of the most fearful was an atheist. He had until now been trying to convert others to his convictions. God, eternal life, judgment after death — all these were ridiculous fables!
Not knowing to whom to go to for courage in this danger, he entered the cabin of a passenger who, in the face of the atheist’s unbelief had given testimony to a deep faith in God. He found him perfectly peaceful.
“Oh, Sir! tell me, what do you think?” he asked. “Don’t you think we are going to sink? We are only a step from a great disaster. How this boat rolls from one side to the other; we are going, aren’t we?”
“Yes, sir,” was the Christian’s answer to the miserable man, “we are going, but not by the same road.”
He that trusts in the Lord does not fear, even though he walks in the “valley of the shadow of death,” while for the ungodly, “Their way is their folly” (Psa. 49:1313This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah. (Psalm 49:13)) and their end eternal perdition afar from the presence of God. But after death, all will believe. There won’t be any unbelievers in eternity for all will experience then the realities of what the Word of God speaks so plainly of now.
Reader, awake now to such solemn realities. Put your trust in the One who has made “Peace with God” as to the question of sin and judgment to come. Then the worst storm will never shake your peace.
ML-09/23/1973