Texas Tragedy

 

Good day! I’m Duane Matz and this is Today’s Living Word.

 

A terrible tragedy in Texas. One report says the Guadalupe River rose 26 feet in 45 minutes! Impossible to even imagine such a surge! It was an inland tsunami, a flood of almost biblical proportions that wiped out everything in its path.  Including Camp Mystic, a non-denominational Christian summer camp for girls.

 

The recent tragedies of wind, rain, and fire in our country continue to mount up at a pace that we have not seen in our lifetime. And we find ourselves tempted  to shake our fist to the heavens and say, “Why God? Why are you allowing these things to occur?”

 

We fear for the eternal souls of those who died, we grieve with the parents, we pray, and we look for ways to help in the aftermath.

 

But we can take comfort in the fact that God knows those who are His, and not one of His children will be lost.

 

2Ti 2:19 Nevertheless the solid foundation of God stands, having this seal: "The Lord knows those who are His,"

 

 Jesus did not skirt the issue of tragedy in His day. He openly talked about it with others and we read about it in the Gospel of Luke.

 

Lu 13:1 There were present at that season some who told Him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.

 2 And Jesus answered and said to them, "Do you suppose that these Galileans were worse sinners than all other Galileans, because they suffered such things?

 3 "I tell you, no; but unless you repent you will all likewise perish.

 

 4 "Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them, do you think that they were worse sinners than all other men who dwelt in Jerusalem?

 5 "I tell you, no; but unless you repent you will all likewise perish."

 

Every horrific tragedy on earth, gives cause for you and I to consider our date with eternity. It will not go well for those who resist repentance.

 

Don’t let the men, women, and children who lost their lives in this flood die in vain,

 

Come to Jesus, surrender to Him!

 

For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; (2 Cor 7:10)

 

I’m Duane Matz and that’s Today’s Living Word