When Lighting Flashes

When the Lighting Flashes!
The following is a great devotion I found that was written by Muncy Harris in 1985.

Many have been the times, when on a hot summer evening, the typical thunderstorm would begin boiling in from the west.
First, would come the brilliant lighting; to be followed, momentarily, by the threating thunder.
Now, the thunder contributed nothing to the lighting but it was an evidence that the lighting was a reality and a storm was truly approaching.
Likewise, the “lighting” of saving faith must be followed by the “thunder” of good works to demonstrate its reality. True, the “thunder” of good works adds nothing to the “lighting” of our salvation but it is a witness that something has already happened.
In the inspired words of the apostle James, “Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works,” James 2:18
When the “lighting” flashes – it should be followed by the “thunder” of good works.

So then it would stand to reason that all that claim to be born again and there is no change in their lives would give us cause to doubt. One can pretend to be something they are not only so long. For by their fruits ye shall know them the Bible says.
There will be a lot of those who claim to be saved and born again that will be standing in empty churches when Jesus comes to claim those who have truly been washed in the blood of the lamb, have asked Jesus to forgive them and to come into their hearts and save their soul.
Jesus knows who they are for He wrote their name down in the Lambs Book of Life, they know who they are! Are you one of those whose name has been written down? Or will you be among those who Jesus will say depart form me I never knew you?