Worship in a Lightning Storm

[ronscarpa]

Worship in a Lightning Storm

WORD for Friday, 9/18/2015 - John Piper

“For as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day.” (Luke 17:24) 

 

I was flying at night from Chicago to Minneapolis, almost alone on the plane. The pilot announced that there was a thunderstorm over Lake Michigan and into Wisconsin. He would skirt it to the west to avoid turbulence.

As I sat there staring out into the total blackness, suddenly the whole sky was brilliant with light, and a cavern of white clouds fell away four miles beneath the plane and then vanished.

A second later, a mammoth white tunnel of light exploded from north to south across the horizon, and again vanished into blackness. Soon the lightning was almost constant, and volcanoes of light burst up out of cloud ravines and from behind distant white mountains.

I sat there shaking my head almost in unbelief. O Lord, if these are but the sparks from the sharpening of Your sword, what will be the day of Your appearing! And I remembered the words of Christ: “As the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in His day.” (Luke 17:24)

Even now as I recollect that sight, the word glory is full of feeling for me. I thank God that again and again He has awakened my heart to desire Him, to see Him, and to sit down to His feast and worship the King of Glory. The banquet hall is very large. (edited-Ron)

[stealthwarrior]

Yes,now more than ever.

[EagleEye]

awesome Ron !!

[Muleslayer]

I remember a night in western kansas as a young man fresh out of high school, a wild and wooly thunder storm

Lightning crashing all around me as the wonder of the power of "nature" was displayed all around me.

A barbed wire fence as my alter as I prayed.

I felt in total awe of the raw power. No big revelations to relate. Other than the first baby step to becoming a man.

It was the first time in my life that I realized how insignificant a human is in terms of self importance.

It took another twenty five years to surrender the reins of my life.

Old song said it best. "Still runnin against the wind"

I am closer to contentment every day.

P.S.

I thank god every day for healing my #2 Daughter of her drug addiction.

She is alive doing well and has gone past her previous record of being clean.

Only by pleading the blood of Jesus was this a end result.

Probably a little off topic. But your words about the wild storm reached out to me.