On the morning of May 18 Mount St. Helens suddenly exploded in a tremendous volcanic eruption. About one mile west of the base of the mountain, young David Crockett photographed the almost unbelievable sights.
Suddenly, David glanced up and saw a thirty foot high wall of mud, ash and debris cascading down toward him like a tidal wave. "I didn't stop to think how far away it was. I jumped into the car and floored it," he recalled.
He raced down a gravel road on the valley floor, catching nightmarish glimpses in the rear view mirror of what was following him. Finally, he veered off on a logging road.
"Just as I got down toward the bottom of the valley, the road didn't just wash out. It exploded! All of a sudden it was gone."
Unable to drive any further, he left the car and waded on through waist-deep hot mud and ash. Twice the air around him turned pitch black and he had to stop momentarily until he could see again. Finally he made it to a small hill where he spent the day waiting to be rescued.
"I really felt God was there the whole time. That's the only way I made it," David said from his hospital room. "The whole valley was gone. Absolutely gone." And God surely had preserved David from almost certain death. Many others did not escape.
But there is a much greater danger for each one of us than a thirty foot tidal wave of mud. "The day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up." 2 Peter 3:1010But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. (2 Peter 3:10).
Will you be delivered from that destruction? It can only be if you accept the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior. He loves you and wants to deliver you from the wrath to come. "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved." Acts 16:3131And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. (Acts 16:31).