Carried By A Dad

Carried by God

Tonight I was looking for pictures for my youngest daughter for her poem book and I came across a picture of my carrying my middle daughter Kendall. She was in the water at the beach and was stung by a jelly fish and I was carrying her from the water to a towel that was on the beach. She was in was in such pain from the jelly fish. I laid her on the towel and did what I could do to stop the pain. As I was looking at this picture I thought of this verse Romans 8:35-37 “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulations, or distress, or persecutions, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?...Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.

In Life we experience highs and lows, good times and bad-and we must understand that God is God in the valley and God on the mountaintop. You may know the story of the poem “Foot prints in the sand.” The speaker wonders why, during the most difficult times of life, there was only one set of footprints in the sand. Why had God left her alone in those trails and times of trouble? The Lord replied, “The times when you have seen only one set of footprints, is when I carried you.

We experience hard times as individuals and collectively (we’ll never forget 9/11, for example), and many times people want to blame God. The truth is, the evil one puts such ideas into the hearts of men, but God is always there to help us get through the aftermath. Such times of tragedy provide a tremendous opportunity for Christians to show the love of God through words and deeds.

Satan tries to use hard times to separate us from God, but hard times can actually push believers closer to God. The hardest challenges and deepest valleys force us to rely on God. During those struggles we realize He is always there and all we need. We learn in a new way that God’s grace is more than sufficient, that “we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.”