The small harbor town of La Push, Washington, is located where the Quileute River, flowing out of the Olympic Mountains, empties into the Pacific Ocean. On the west, rugged islands and sea stacks just off shore provide the town a little protection from winds and waves. Most of the people who live in La Push belong to the Quileute Indian tribe. The houses in town, all within a couple blocks of the harbor, are just a few feet above water level. The townspeople of La Push know about water. Most of them make their living by fishing or crabbing. Recently tribal members from the town made an unusual request of the United States government. They asked if they could relocate their entire town to nearby higher ground belonging to the Olympic National Park so that, if a tsunami hit the Northwest Coast, their tribe might have a chance of surviving.
The request for relocation went to the U.S. Congress and they passed the Quileute Tribe’s Flood and Tsunami Bill granting them 785 acres for a new town site on higher ground. The law was signed by the President of the United States.
Whenever people foresee a problem and prepare in advance to meet it, they are acting wisely. God gave men and women ears, eyes, memories and the power to think so that they would use these gifts and not constantly be swept away by overpowering problems. He expects them to use the gifts He has given them when it comes to matters of the soul as well. He doesn’t want anyone to bury their heads in the sand and act as if all is fine when it is not. “Sin entered into the world,” and because “all have sinned,” God’s judgment is coming. Sin and judgment go together as surely as earthquake and tsunami do. Unlike a tsunami which “might” happen within a lifetime, God’s judgment is “certainly” coming, and one lifetime is what God has given to each one to prepare for it. It is coming because God in His holiness must judge sin. The final result of this judgment will be that souls who love sin and want nothing of God’s grace will be cast out of His presence into the darkness of hell.
Souls who want to escape the impending judgment need to repent and place their faith in God’s Son. To repent means to detest sin which was formerly loved and to love God who formerly was detested. They need to believe in the Lord Jesus because in Him all God’s love and wisdom was revealed to this world. When He hung on the cross and gave up His life, He made the only sacrifice that could ever remove the stain of sin.
Since the Lord Jesus suffered on the cross, God declares that all who believe on His blessed name are forgiven, cleansed and safe on higher ground from the judgment which must overtake sinners. The President of the U.S. signed the bill enabling the town of La Push to move to higher ground and safety from a possible tsunami, but the highest authority in all the universe, God Himself, has declared that souls who believe on His Son will be safe from the terrible judgment which must overtake sinners. None is higher than Him, and, by taking Him at His word, men and women can have great peace.
Will you foresee the trouble that lurks ahead for everyone who remains in their sins, and repent and believe on the Lord Jesus that you might find safety? “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)).