Stay to the end

I'm thinking about the weather today. I read that 45 persons were killed by the weather this past weekend, Friday-Saturday. By the weather.

You're sitting in your home, you hear that famed trail and your time has come.

My son, Jason, who was planning on beginning to record his next album at Malaco Records in Jackson, Miss., learned some of how life treats you when that Malaco building was destroyed by a tornado.

Hurricanes. Tornadoes. Earthquakes. Tsunamis.

It all is part of the nature of the world that God created. We all are a part of it as well.

Jesus spoke of things along these lines in his last week on this earth in human form. He said, "Watch out for doomsday deceivers. ... Nation will fight nation and ruler fight ruler, over and over. Huge earthquakes will occur in various places. There will be famines. You'll thank at times that the very sky is falling."

He concluded this look into the future with these words: "Stay with it to the end. You won't be sorry, you'll be saved."

The pain of what those affected by the storms are going through can't be explained or understood except for those who are going through it. It is their suffering. It is their loss. Our condolences are not good enough. Except, except, we know this person, this man named Jesus, who suffered and died for that death itself could be defeated. Those who believe in him, who "stay with it to the end," will be saved.

Even in bad weather. Maybe especially in bad weather.