The storm had raged through during the night, and morning dawned on a scene of fallen trees and downed electric wires. The news photographer grabbed his camera and hurried out into the streets, looking for a picture to dramatize the damage.
He found it. Surrounded by fallen trees—trees large enough to have crushed it—sat a little car, a "compact," safe and sound in the midst of the wreckage. On the license plate a small sign proclaimed:
"JESUS SAVES!"
Now, we are not suggesting that the sign was a sort of talisman or charm that protected the little car in the storm. But the photographer's picture was a good illustration of a great truth: JESUS SAVES!
The Lord Jesus came into this world to seek and to save that which was lost. Even before His birth God said, "Thou shalt call His name JESUS: for He shall save His people from their sins." Matt. 1:21.
The world is growing darker around us, and the storms of life are raging more fiercely all the time. There is a continuous roar and crash of the "big trees" falling: banks failing, old and established businesses going bankrupt, even governments collapsing.
David, who wrote the Psalms, said, "Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.... I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest." Psa. 55:6, 8.
David wrote that about 3,000 years ago; escapism is not new! But the prophet Isaiah wrote, "A Man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest... as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land." Isa. 32:2. Bank, business, government, all may fail—all will fail—but "the Lord... faileth not." Now He says to every one who has put their trust in Him, "Peace I leave with you, My peace I give unto you.... Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid." John 14:27.
"Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from Him cometh my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation." Psa. 62:1, 2.