It was a terribly stormy night and a vessel was, wrecked off the coast of Cornwall, England. Everyone on board was drowned except one Irish lad. He was hurled by the waves onto a jagged rock, and there he remained safe through all the storm.
In the morning when the wind subsided, the searchers spied him through their glasses. They launched a lifeboat at once and rowed to the place where he was clinging to the rock. He had almost perished with cold and exposure. Tenderly they lifted him into the lifeboat and brought him to shore where he was warmed and fed. Someone said to him, “Lad, didn’t you tremble out there on that rock in all that storm?”
He replied in his Irish way, “Tremble? Sure I trembled, but, do you know, the rock never trembled once all night long!”
There are many “storms” in the pathway of life, but those who are on the Rock which is the Lord Jesus Christ are perfectly safe. The young lad of our story had to hold on to the rock, but those who have “fled for refuge” to the Lord Jesus Christ do not have to hold on to Him. He holds on to them. On the cross of Calvary He bore the full storm of God’s righteous judgment against sin for all those who believe, that He might become their “Hiding Place.” All the storms of life can never rob the believer of eternal salvation, and even though at times doubts and fears may attack us, causing us to tremble like the Irish lad, we know “our Rock” never moves.
If you have not received the Lord Jesus Christ as your own personal Saviour, why not do so now? If you go on without Him, sooner or later you will sink down into a lost eternity under the judgment of God. May the very “storms of life” lead you to the Saviour who is able and willing to save you now, and for all eternity. Here is His precious promise to His own.
“I GIVE UNTO THEM ETERNAL LIFE; AND THEY SHALL NEVER PERISH, NEITHER SHALL ANY MAN PLUCK THEM OUT OF MY HAND.” John 10:28.
ML 07/08/1956