What Freckles Doesn't Know

From: Messages of God's Love: 2007

Narrator: Chris Genthree

• 1 min. read • grade level: 7

Lightning can be very frightening for some people and also for some animals. Our dog Freckles is one of those animals that is frightened at the first flash of lightning or crack of thunder. We have seen him try to hide under a small stool that is less than half his size, or if the bathroom door is open, we sometimes find him hiding in the bathtub. When this happens, he is also shaking all over.

What Freckles doesn’t know is that he is already safe when he is inside the house during the storm. How foolish it is for him to hide under such a small stool or in the bathtub. The stool does not hide him or protect him, and the pipes to the bathtub might even act as a lightning rod to attract lightning.

Do you think you can hide from God? There is nothing big enough or safe enough to hide you or your sins from God. “The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good” (Proverbs 15:3³The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good. (Proverbs 15:3)). But God has promised that all who will accept His Son, the Lord Jesus, as their Saviour will be safe in His house when He carries out His fierce punishment of sin. The Lord Jesus said, “I am the door: by Me if any man enter in, he shall be saved” (John 10:9⁹I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. (John 10:9)).

Won’t you come to the Lord Jesus now? He loves you and offers you forgiveness of your sins and a place of safety. “I flee unto Thee to hide me” (Psalm 143:9⁹Deliver me, O Lord, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to hide me. (Psalm 143:9)). “I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more” (Jeremiah 31:34³⁴And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. (Jeremiah 31:34)).

ML-04/08/2007

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