Here's Nancy DeMas Walgamuth. On February 8th, 1750, London was hit by a significant, though not catastrophic, earthquake.

John Wesley was in London at the time and recorded the event in his journal. He followed his account with this comment.

He said, how gently does God deal with this nation?

Oh, that our repentance may prevent heavier marks of his displeasure.

You see, Wesley believed that earthquakes, major storms, epidemics, and other such events

were not just accidents of nature.

They were providential acts.

If nothing else intended to serve as warnings to awaken people out of their complacency

and to cause them to seriously consider their spiritual condition and their standing before a holy God.

This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, co-author of You Can Trust God to

to Write Your Story. It's March 26, 2020. I'm Dana Gresh.

Wow.

Nancy just told us how John Wesley believed earthquakes, epidemics, and other such events were not just accidents of nature.

But they could serve to awaken people out of complacency and cause them to consider their spiritual condition before a holy God. As people across the world are figuring out how to deal with a pandemic, these words take on a special resonance.

Nancy's picking back up in the series, A Mighty Fortress is Our God.

She's helping us trust God when we face crises like that earthquake that shook London in February 1750.

Exactly one month later on March 8th, John's brother, Charles Wesley, was in London when a second earthquake hit.

It was a stronger shock,

but still not catastrophic. Within a matter of weeks, Charles had published a sermon called the cause and cure of earthquakes. I've read much of that sermon over the last couple of days, and

really interesting to see how he explains all this. And then he also

published a collection of hymns called Hymns Occasioned by the Earthquake, March 8th, 1750.

Charles Wesley wrote hundreds and hundreds of hymns, and did you know that he wrote a series

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