Only One Safe Place!
"But you, brethren, are not in darkness,
so that this Day should overtake you as
a thief."
1 Thessalonians 5: 4
During the yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia in 1793,
Dr. Benjamin Rush refused to leave the city, feeling God
had placed him there for such a time.
He told his medical students, “As for myself, I am determined to
remain. I may fall a victim to the epidemic, and so may you, gentle
men. But I prefer since I am placed here by Divine Providence, to
fall in performing
my duty… then to secure my life by fleeing from
the post of duty allotted in the Providence of God.”
Rush survived the plague and left a lasting lesson.
The safest place is always the center of God’s will.
Plagues and pandemics come and go. Violence rises and falls.
Evil goes from bad to worse. But when we are in the daily course
of divine duty, we are shielded by our God—safe and secure from
all alarm.
The worst thing that can happen to us is the best thing—
the Lord will take us to heaven. So don’t live in fear today.
Follow the footsteps of the Savior.
"Going through trials doesn’t mean I am
outside of God’s will, but rather that He
is with me, guiding me through them."
Aline Mello
