Lightning Rod

Roy Sullivan was a U.S. park ranger at the Shenandoah National Park in Virginia. In 1942, Sullivan was seeking shelter during a thunderstorm when a lightning bolt struck him, running down his leg and burning a hole in his shoe.

Sullivan survived the ordeal and was driving down the road 27 years later when lightning bounced off a tree and shot through the open window of his truck, striking Sullivan and burning off his eyebrows and eyelashes.

As if that wasn’t bad enough, Sullivan was struck by lightning again in his yard one year later, then again two years after that, then again one more year later. In June 1976 and 1977, Sullivan was struck by lightning again, lighting his hair on fire both times, but living to tell the tale after each of his total of seven lightning strikes.

In Romans 6 (4), Paul reminds us that “we were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.”

We have the incredible opportunity to elude death, not necessarily in the same way as Roy Sullivan, but through the resurrection of Christ. If we confess Jesus as Lord, submit our lives to Him through baptism, and live lives dedicated to serving God, we will overcome death and be united with Jesus in a resurrection like His.

Let that thought serve to light your way this week. 

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