The Blast of the Terrible Ones

​For You have been a strength to the poor,
​​A strength to the needy in his distress,
​​A refuge from the storm,
​​A shade from the heat;
​​For the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall. (Isaiah 25:4)

Is this not what we fear in this world? The blast of the terrible ones has a chilling effect on our witness, but it shouldn't be so. If you have ever been sued with the serving of papers, you have heard the blast of the terrible ones in a legal way. Again, it should not be that way and would not if we remember first the Lord and His might. We are like a mouse hearing the blast of the storm and forgetting entirely about the wall the Lord has erected to stand firm and immovable against any convulsion of the wind and waves. Actually, we are forgetting the Lord Himself in our little mousy distress.

The government thunders its laws, politicians blast at each other (and some of us), foreign powers blast away economically, vocally, and militarily, and then we have the whole range of demonic powers blasting away at us. How are we ever to stand on our own? Of course, that is not what God would have us to do. He made the wall Isaiah wrote of hundreds of years before Jesus came. Read that last sentence of the verse today in a dismissive way. "A storm against God's wall? Ha, it means nothing! A little noise is all I hear!" For we are to stand behind God's wall, safe in His mighty power, protected by His grace and mercy, and eternally safe in His love.

One day the terrible ones will know the meaning of the terror in terrible when facing our great and terrible God. Then, they will know what terrible means when the wrath of God comes upon them.

Praise God the mercy and grace His Son bought for us on the cross is available to all!

Bucky