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09.28.10

Brace for Impact

Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the
earth and the heaven fled away. And there was found no place for them. And I
saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened.
And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were
judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the
books. The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades
delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one
according to his works. Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of
fire. This is the second death. And anyone not found written in the Book of
Life was cast into the lake of fire. - Revelation 20:11-15.

The emergency landing today of Delta Flight 4951 with the flight attendant
shouting "heads down", "stay down" over and over while one wing scrapes
along the runway with sparks flying is scary even on the video. It also
brings back memories of other landings that were close calls. The one that I
think will always come first to my mind is the "miracle on the Hudson"
landing piloted by then 57-year-old Captain Chesley B Sullenberger III.
Julian Williams was one of the passengers on the flight who described it in
this way, "I was looking out of the window and I saw one of the engines
blow. The pilot started trying to turn around to go back but then three
minutes later he said, 'Brace for impact' and then we went down."

Can you imagine the terror that fills the minds of the passengers as the
pilot calmly announces "Brace for impact?" Although, on a lower level on the
terror scale we have all braced for impact with one thing or another. We may
have braced for impact as our vehicle was soon to be involved in a crash. We
may have braced for impact as we saw the economy nosedive and our employment
became at risk. We may have braced for impact as we sat in a doctor's office
and heard the dreaded news that we have cancer or some other disease, or
must have some kind of surgery.

We know what it means to "brace for impact"; however, after we have "braced
for impact" so many times facing physical dangers it is difficult for us to
take seriously spiritual dangers. It is hard because the spiritual dangers
are unseen and do not appear to be occurring in our immediate future. When
you are struggling to make enough to keep your home or car from being
repossessed, or fighting to hold your marriage together, or trying to keep
your job when others are being laid off around you every day, it is hard to
focus seriously on the possibility of unseen and even unknown spiritual
dangers.

Those spiritual dangers are very real and the Holy Spirit is speaking to
your heart about them. The Spirit is not shouting like the flight attendant
during the emergency landing today. No, the Holy Spirit is speaking in a
still, small, calm voice warning you to "Brace for impact." Is your name
written in the Lamb's Book of Life? If not, your spiritual landing will be
difficult as you crash into the Lake of Fire. Your spiritual crash landing
may not be 50 years from now, it could be tomorrow, or even today. "Behold,
now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation (2 Corinthians
6:2c)." If you have never received Jesus as your personal Savior; today is
the time to do so, now is the time to turn from your sins and turn to the
Lord (Romans 10:13).

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