God’s Day

The whole earth’s shaking; literally! Under the sea, just off the coast of Japan, two plates of the earth’s crust slipped violently last Friday. The energy released made the ground ripple like a blanket being shaken, collapsing buildings, and causing a tsunami to roar ashore that caused terrible destruction and loss of life. I am praying for those who are grieving, suffering, thirsty, and hungry and I hope that you are, too. The pictures look like previews of the Apocalypse! And, I am reminded that life will not always go on as it is today. Do you know that there will come a Day of world-wide judgment that will shake everything?
The Scripture says, "concerning how and when all this will happen, dear brothers and sisters, we don’t really need to write you. For you know quite well that the day of the Lord’s return will come unexpectedly, like a thief in the night. When people are saying, “Everything is peaceful and secure,” then disaster will fall on them as suddenly as a pregnant woman’s labor pains begin. And there will be no escape." (1 Thessalonians 5:1-3, NLT)

In the sermon he preached at Pentecost, Peter quoted Joel’s prophecy. "I will show wonders in the heaven above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke. The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord." (Acts 2:19-20, NIV)

John’s Revelation tells us the story of God’s judgment in vivid picture language, sparing no gruesome detail about God’s day. Then, we find these words of worship: "After this I heard what sounded like the roar of a great multitude in heaven shouting: “Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God, for true and just are his judgments. He has condemned the great prostitute who corrupted the earth by her adulteries. He has avenged on her the blood of his servants.”" (Revelation 19:1-2, NIV)

Are you ready for God’s Day?
When the earth shakes and God judges, when the flow of time comes to an end and justice rolls down from the Almighty, where will you stand?

The only place of security when the judgment of God falls is in Christ Jesus. Whatever your understanding of the various prophetic time lines proposed by various schools, there is one unifying theme: Christ is the Hope of salvation. John speaks in different ways about those who are safe in the Lord’s grace – sealed, marked, given robes of righteousness, gathered. They praise but One Savior that Day. It is not technology, nor is the wisdom of humanity, nor it wealth. "After this I saw a vast crowd, too great to count, from every nation and tribe and people and language, standing in front of the throne and before the Lamb. They were clothed in white robes and held palm branches in their hands. And they were shouting with a mighty shout, “Salvation comes from our God who sits on the throne and from the Lamb!” And all the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living beings. And they fell before the throne with their faces to the ground and worshiped God." (Revelation 7:9-11, NLT)

Japan’s sorrow is a glimpse of what will come on “God’s Day.”
Today is our day for salvation, our time to find our hope in Christ alone.
Will you put your trust in Him? Will you receive His salvation and begin to live ‘from faith to faith?”

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In Christ alone my hope is found,
He is my light, my strength, my song!
This Cornerstone, this solid Ground;
Firm, through the fiercest drought and storm.
What heights of love, what depths of peace,
When fears are stilled, when strivings cease!
My Comforter, my All in All,
Here in the love of Christ I stand.

No guilt in life, no fear in death,
This is the pow'r of Christ in me!
From life's first cry to final breath,
Jesus commands my destiny.
No power of hell, no scheme of man
Can ever pluck me from His hand.
Till he returns or calls me home,
Here in the pow'r of Christ I'll stand!


In Christ Alone
Townsend
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