Where the Fire Has Been
Story★★★Many years ago, a father and his daughter were walking through the grass on the Canadian prairie. In the distance, they saw a prairie fire; eventually, they realized, it would engulf them. The father knew there was only one way of escape: they would quickly begin a fire right where they were and bum a large patch of grass. When the huge fire drew near, they then would stand on the section that had already burned.
When the fire actually did approach them, the girl was terrified by the raging flames. But her father assured her, “The flames can’t get to us.
We are standing where the fire has already been.” Are you afraid of God’s judgment? If you have trusted Christ as Savior, you can never come under His wrath. When we depend on Him, we are secure; we are where the wrath of God has already been.
The point
A father saves his daughter from a prairie fire by standing on already-burned ground, illustrating how believers are secure from God's judgment because Christ has already borne His wrath.