Lightning can be very frightening. A person can be struck inside his or her home from a storm five miles away.
Scary, isn’t it? People in the American Midwest are advised not to stand by a window and watch the lightning burn up the sky. It’s been known to come right through windows and storm doors, taking what it will from whoever’s inside.
That’s power, the energy of half a nation in one vicious flash of light, able to incinerate whatever it wishes, with no one able to predict just where it will land.
Christ will return to this earth in exactly the same way.
Matthew 24:27 describes the power of our coming King:
“For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be.”
A general rule of thumb in a lightning storm is that if you can hear thunder, you can be struck by lightning, even on a sunny and cloudless day. From the east to the west, you are not safe from the coming devastation.
The coming of Christ will be the same. It will be the most cataclysmic event in the history of the earth, one to strike fear into men’s hearts, and to cause their knees to tremble. No will be cloaked by doubt any longer. No one will ask, “Is this the Christ?” His power will erase all doubt.
Yet in the natural world, there are ways to protect ourselves from lightning strikes. People who take precautions are perfectly safe. They have nothing to worry about when the storm crashes across the sky.
Our safety in the spiritual world comes through salvation in Christ. When Jesus resides in our heart, his return will elicit a dance of eternal joy and rapture, for he will be returning for us. There will be nothing for the believer to fear.
For everyone else? Feel free to run and hide, but the lightning will find you wherever you are.
Jesus is the king, and one day he will return for his own.
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