Who is Holding Your Rope?

“It is better to trust the Lord than to put confidence in man.” –Psalm 118:8

We live in confusing times. There are too many people who have no personal relationship with God. There is no place on earth that doesn’t need The Word. Just as the farmer spreads his seeds upon the fields, we need to spread The Word of God over the world.  Does the farmer sow his seeds from his front porch swing?  No, and neither should we stay in one place as we plant seeds of salvation.  God wants us to reach outward.

We cry for the hungry children.  We tremble with the reports of evil in our midst.  We weep for people forced from their homelands.  We can help!

It’s not just the know-how of sowing we need.  We must embrace the warmth of love and the closeness of prayer.

My love of old books yielded a story about several men of science who were exploring the Alps for a certain flower.  On a day of sun and excitement the scientists saw the flower in a ravine on a part of the mountain valley below them.  Their only descent was sheer rock straight down.

All day a native boy had been watching them.  The scientists told the boy they would give him three pounds if he let them lower him by rope into the valley to get the flower.  He told them he would do it but he had to leave for a short while.  When he returned he had a man with him.  The boy announced, “I’ll go over the cliff to get your flower if you let this man hold the rope.  He’s my father and the only one I can trust not to let go of the rope.”

We give thanks to our Heavenly Father for the trust we have in Him.  He gave us The Word, but he doesn’t leave us on our own to follow it’s precepts.  He guides us as we walk the roads of our earthly home.  He shows us the path to our eternal destination. 

Written by Billie Ann Haynes