THE
BENEFITS OF A SNOWSTORM!
Isa
45:22
22
Look
unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is
none else.
On January 6, 1850, a snowstorm almost crippled
the city of Colchester, England; and a teenage boy was unable to get to the
church he usually attended. So he made his way to a nearby Primitive Methodist
chapel, where an ill-prepared layman was substituting for
the absent preacher. His text was Isa 45:22 "Look
unto Me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth." For many months this
young teenager had been miserable and under deep conviction, but though he had
been reared in church (both his father and grandfather were preachers), he did
not have the assurance of salvation.
The unprepared substitute minister did not have
much to say, so he kept repeating the text. "A man need not go to college
to learn to look," he shouted. "Anyone can look - a child can
look!" About that time, he saw the visitor sitting to one side,
and he pointed at him and said, "Young man, you look very miserable. Young
man, look to Jesus Christ!"
The young man did look by faith, and that was
how the great preacher Charles Haddon Spurgeon was converted.
(from
The Bible Exposition Commentary. Copyright © 1989 by Chariot Victor Publishing,
and imprint of Cook Communication Ministries. All rights reserved. Used by
permission.)
Dear
Lord, we gripe and complain when we are inconvenienced by the weather but we
can’t know your reasons. Help us today to understand that we don’t understand
and to submit to your purposes in everything. AMEN
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