On the west coast of England there is a steep rock that is known as “The Lady’s Rock.” At low tide it is on a sandy beach; at high tide the waters surround it.
Once there was a lady who sat down by the rock at low tide to read a book. She did not notice the tide was coming in until she heard the shout of a coastguard on the cliff. Then she saw that the waves with their white foam were between her and the shore. There was no boat, and the watchers who quickly gathered on the cliff could not reach her.
The coastguard shouted, “Climb the rock!” It was the only way out of the waters, but the rock was steep. Even the boys who climbed its face to get sea bird eggs had trouble getting up to the nests. How could she climb it? As she hesitated, an incoming wave splashed spray at her feet. She could see that the sea was coming closer to her. She began to climb, little by little, until she reached a ledge. She looked down at the sea; it was rising higher and higher, and she was getting wet with its spray.
“Climb higher!” shouted the people on the shore.
Again she inched her way upward, hanging on with bleeding fingers and finding footholds in crevices, until she was able to grasp a tuft of grass at the top and to pull herself up. She collapsed on top of the rock while the people shouted, “She’s saved! Thank God she’s saved!”
There was no one who could save her from the rising sea, but there is someone who can save you from the wrath of God before it comes in like a flood upon this world. Like the lady of the rock, you may be so interested in the things of the world around you that you do not realize that you may be lost in that sea.
You cannot save yourself, but if you cry to the Lord Jesus Christ, He will save you—He will deliver you “from the wrath to come.” The lady of the rock saved herself by climbing up the rock, but there is no way to climb from earth to heaven. There must be a deliverer, and that deliverer is the Lord Jesus Christ.
“Neither is there salvation in
any other: for there is
none other name under heaven
given among men, whereby
we must be saved.”