Safe in the Cross: The Prairie Fire Lesson
Look at the frontiersmen. When those men see the prairies on fire, and the flames traveling a great deal faster than the fleetest horse, when they can see the flames rolling over the entire prairie, consuming man and beast—what do the frontiersmen do at such a time? Do they run away from it? They know better than that; for the flames go faster than they can. They light the grass in a circle around them. They hear the flames as they roll over the prairie, but they know they are perfectly safe. And why? Because fire has been there before. There is one mountain peak that the wrath of God has been over, and that is Calvary. Take the cross, and there you are safe. Let pestilence and plague and death sweep over the city, and you are safe. Why? Because Christ has passed through the city, and all you have to do is to accept the finished work of salvation.—Christian Weekly.