We’re not genuinely repulsed, as well we should be, by the effects of sin on this world. We haven’t truly sold out to the idea that we’re not supposed to be absorbed into this culture because though it shocks us from time to time, it holds the same kind of seduction that Sodom and Gomorrah held for Lot and his wife and daughters. We don’t really grasp what that means because in general, we haven’t felt unsafe out there rubbing shoulders with the world. Although the most popular translation of Psalm 91 refers to the “secret place” of the Most High where a believer can dwell perpetually in our relationship with God, I pondered the aspect of that place of safety where the righteous might congregate when peril grips the land. Last night as I was brushing my teeth, I stared at the Psalm 91 print on my bathroom wall and in my mind, I recalled the fallout shelter symbols that were so commonly seen in my childhood. The symbol on the outside of our county courthouse and other public buildings was an unsettling yet comforting reminder that if some bad thing were to happen, there was perhaps a place to run and hide. I can remember, as a child, that I didn’t fully comprehend what a fallout shelter actually was but I knew that it was protection from something ominous. ![]() ![]() It wasn’t altogether uncommon for some serious preppers to build an underground bunker similar to the tornado shelters of the Heartland. Back in days of the Cold War, “fallout shelter” became a familiar term as people grew increasingly aware of a threat of nuclear war.
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