Standing Your Post

A new exhibit has opened up in Charlotte this month: it is called a Day in Pompeii. For years archaeologists have been uncovering the remains of that city which was destroyed by the ash and lava of a devastating volcano. Researchers have discovered much evidence of people attempting to flee the catastrophe, and some people are forever "frozen" in a running position. But one man did not run. Burgess records that "At the city gate was found a skeleton of a Roman guard. There he had remained, both hands clutched about his weapon, while the very ground on which he stood trembled and the fiery ashes were gradually burying him; after these many centuries, he was found at his post of duty."

We Christians are to be soldiers for Christ. We live in enemy territory. And one day the world will come to an end, and it will be cataclysmic. And where will you be? Will you be running? Or will you be standing your post?