Thursday, April 14, 2011

Is God really with us,even when we cannot see Him

Do you know the legend of the Cherokee Indian youth's rite of passage?

His father takes him into the forest, blindfolds him and leaves him alone.
  He is required to sit on a stump the whole night without removing the blindfold until the rays of the morning sun shine through it.  He cannot cry out for help to anyone. 


Once he survives the night, he is a man.

He cannot tell the other boys of this experience, because each lad must come into manhood on his own.

The boy is naturally terrified. He can hear all kinds of noises. Wild beasts must surely be all around him. Maybe even some human might do him harm. The wind blows the grass and earth, and shakes his stump, but he sits
 stoically, never removing the blindfold. It will be the only way he becomes a man!
Finally, after a horrific night the sun appears and he removes his
 blindfold. It is then that he discovers his father sitting on the stump next to him. He has been at watch the entire night, protecting his son from harm.


We, too, are never alone. Even when we don't know it, God is watching over
 us, sitting on the stump beside us.  When trouble comes, all we have to do is reach out to Him.

Moral of the story: Just because you can't see God, doesn’t mean he is not there.

"For we walk by faith, not by sight."
 


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