The safest spot on earth is just over 700 miles from us this morning in Colorado. It is a super-secure military command center called NORAD. In the Rockies, under Cheyenne Mountain, a mile deep in the granite corridors, is the heart of America’s missile defense center.
The main entrance to the complex is approximately one-third of a mile from the North Portal via a tunnel, which leads to a pair of steel Blast Doors, each weighing 25 tons. Behind the 25-ton blast doors is a steel building complex built within a 4.5-acre grid of excavated chambers and tunnels and surrounded by 2,000 feet of granite. Excavation began for the new NORAD Combat Operations Center in Cheyenne Mountain in May 1961. The excavation was nearly complete one year later.
Built at the height of the Cold War and able to withstand any bomb blast, chemical, or biological weapon–it is self-sustaining for those inside for two years. But only if you can get there in time to avoid the attack.
The safest spot in the Universe, even safer than Cheyenne Mountain, is also the closest. Closer than that military center 700 miles from here, closer than your safe room, closer than a shelter, closer than anything else–is the refuge God has designed.
Jesus Christ our hope, our refuge, and our salvation–is one thought away, one prayer away. He is as close as a cry, as close as an outstretched hand, or an upturned heart. Anyone anywhere can instantly arrive in the safest of all places–from any location.
We have already seen Christ, our forerunner, who has forever anchored our souls safely in heaven. If that were all there was for us in Hebrews 6—that would be enough for a lifetime of hope. But there is more.
Turn with me again to Hebrews 6 as we look again at these precious words of security, comfort, and hope—because there is so much MORE from God’s Word for us!
Hebrews 6:17-20 Thus God, determining to show more abundantly to the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, confirmed it by an oath, 18 that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us. 19 This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters the Presence behind the veil, 20 where the forerunner has entered for us, even Jesus, having become High Priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.
This refuge is the safest spot in the universe. But how do we get there? God’s Word says we come by “laying hold of the hope set before us” (v. 18). What is that hope? It is the Lord Jesus Christ Himself.
Now, turn with me back a few pages to 1 Timothy 1:1. As we stand to listen to Paul, we will find the answer.
“Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the commandment of God our Savior and the Lord Jesus Christ, our hope.”
The safest spot in the universe is in the embrace of Jesus.
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