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My own encounter of the “electric kind” brought me into a special club. I found that there were others at Southwest who also have had an electric experience with a lightning bolt. I marveled at the stories other told me about getting hit or nearly getting hit by lightning. I always figured that when lightning strikes you it is all over. Such is not the case. I learned that from reading and hope I never have to learn it from experience.
This week I read the story of Melvin Roberts of Seneca, SC. On June 27, 2011 Melvin was struck by lightning for the sixth time! He said he went out to cover the lawnmower and the next thing he knew he was waking up. Some years before that event he went out to cover his chicken coop when lightning struck him. He said he woke up on the ground and there were dead chickens all around him.
What intrigues me most about Mr. Roberts is the lesson that he said he learned. He said that he may have been stuck because he has been divorced five times. Somehow he has tied the lightning strikes into his divorces. Now that he is married to wife number six, he and his wife said they will not be getting a divorce.
That certainly is one way to bring down the divorce rate in America. It is one way, but it is not the best way. Believing God on the subject will serve much better than lightning.
In Malachi 2:16, we read, “‘I hate divorce,’ says the LORD God of Israel…So guard yourself in your spirit, and do not break faith.”
Like God, we too must hate divorce. There are certainly some situations where divorce is necessary. I believe that 1 Corinthian 6:15 speaks to this. “Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!” A Christian in such a situation, whether male or female should escape from it, but other than this, the best solution is for both parties is to bring their marriage before the Lord and seek His will.
By the way, if his six lightning strikes was because of his five divorces then Mr. Roberts obviously has a learning disability.
Lonnie Davis
Theme: Eternal Life
Song Leader: Dale Lee
Sermon Title: Resurrection and Judgment
Scripture: Revelation 20:11-12″Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books.