FIND US FAITHFUL

The wealthy city of Pompeii was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. A great number of people from all walks of life were buried in the ruins. During the excavation of the great city, in the year 1748, many of the victim’s bodies were discovered in a variety of places.

Some of the casualties were found in deep vaults beneath the city, while others were crouched together in the lofty chambers of numerous buildings in Pompeii. The ash-enshrouded body of a wealthy woman was happened upon, still clutching the jewels that were apparently as important to her as life itself.

But the most startling discovery was made when the archeologists began uncovering the gateway to Pompeii. At the entrance to the city they found the Roman Sentinel standing guard at the gate where his captain had placed him. The old soldier was still clutching his ancient weapon.

There he stood, while the ground shook beneath his feet; while smothering ashes and hot cinders fell from the heavens like fiery rain; while a rushing torrent of molten lava surrounded him in a burning shroud of death, there he stood. Seventeen hundred years later archeologists discovered the loyal Sentinel, the testimony of his faithfulness to duty preserved by the suffocating blanket of Vesuvius’ wrath.

We serve a God who is always faithful, even unto the end. May we be as faithful to God, as God is to us.

Luke 18:8 I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?