God’s Safety Zone

Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him!

Romans 5:9 NIV

An old preacher in England, who had lived on the American prairies in his youth, was involved in street-corner evangelism in the small towns and villages. He attracted an audience with his Wild West stories describing how the Indians had saved their wigwams from prairie fires by setting fire to the dry grass adjoining their settlement. “The fire cannot come,” he explained, “where the fire has already been. That is why I call you to the cross of Christ.”

He continued his graphic analogy by explaining, “Judgment has already fallen and can never come again!” The one who takes his stand at the cross is saved forevermore. He can never come into condemnation, for he is standing where the fire has been. The saved person is in God’s safety zone, cleansed by the blood of Christ.

Our Father and our God, You are the righteous judge. I take my stand at the cross of Christ. I shed my garments of sin and pride, and I put on the cloak of Christ. I am under His blood and made pure as the driven snow. Thank You for saving me, Lord. Keep me in the safety zone. Through Jesus. Amen.

Billy Graham, Unto the Hills: A Daily Devotional (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2010).