Shipwrecked in Keswick

I visited Lake Road Chapel in Keswick on Sunday, the town’s Congregational church. The usual numbers were swollen by Convention goers and a few of them I recognised. The sermons considered the two shipwrecks of scripture for which we have details (Paul’s and Jehoshaphat’s) and the reasons for why the Lord allowed them to happen were considered, and the lessons that might be learned therefrom.

Between the services, we walked about the town and inspected Derwentwater, which eloquently reminded me why so many folk repair to this locality throughout the year. The beauty of the hills and the water, and the charm of the pretty little town almost belied the troubles of residing in a fallen world, which is still enduring Adam’s curse and awaiting God’s wrath. Such a state inevitably attracts grief and pain, one way or another. Thankfully, we Christians who follow the Last Adam and believe that our share of the aforementioned wrath was spent on Him, have even greater prospects to look forward to than anything offered by England’s delectable Lakeland. Our ships may sink and our boats may get wrecked, but we have a hope that will outlast the ancient hills and survive the vast, swirling oceans of eternity. 

And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. John 14:3

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