Search and Rescue Part 2
I've given up on matching outfits for the 14 grands.
Think back to a scenario when you lost someone or something.
We lost a four year old child at Disney and lost one at a ski resort. Those times were so frightening. The children still roll their eyes at me for dressing the six of them alike when we traveled, but those were the days before cell phones and it made them much easier to describe to security when lost by saying..."He's dressed just like this."
We will be forever grateful to the EMTs and a stranger who rescued one of our sons, age 19, from a horrible car accident on I81.
While I was panicking in these situations, our heavenly Father had his eye right on our children. He sent the physical and emotional help we needed to get through these storms. We were not alone.
Psalm 50:15 instructs:
“… call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.”
God was right there and we cried out for help. God is faithful and trustworthy.
Psalm 107:19
Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble; He saved them out of their distresses.
Memorize Isaiah 41:10
‘Do not fear, for I am with you;
Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you, surely I will help you,
Surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.
We have an even greater need for spiritual rescuing from sin. This is no surprise to God, so he created a way out.
1 Corinthians 10:13
No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, so that you will be able to endure it.
Colossians 1:13
For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son.
Colossians 1:13-23 The Message
"God rescued us from dead-end alleys and dark dungeons. He’s set us up in the kingdom of the Son he loves so much, the Son who got us out of the pit we were in, got rid of the sins we were doomed to keep repeating.
Christ Holds It All Together We look at this Son and see the God who cannot be seen. We look at this Son and see God’s original purpose in everything created. For everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible, rank after rank after rank of angels—everything got started in him and finds its purpose in him. He was there before any of it came into existence and holds it all together right up to this moment. And when it comes to the church, he organizes and holds it together, like a head does a body. He was supreme in the beginning and—leading the resurrection parade—he is supreme in the end. From beginning to end he’s there, towering far above everything, everyone. So spacious is he, so expansive, that everything of God finds its proper place in him without crowding. Not only that, but all the broken and dislocated pieces of the universe—people and things, animals and atoms—get properly fixed and fit together in vibrant harmonies, all because of his death, his blood that poured down from the cross.
You yourselves are a case study of what he does. At one time you all had your backs turned to God, thinking rebellious thoughts of him, giving him trouble every chance you got. But now, by giving himself completely at the Cross, actually dying for you, Christ brought you over to God’s side and put your lives together, whole and holy in his presence. You don’t walk away from a gift like that! You stay grounded and steady in that bond of trust, constantly tuned in to the Message, careful not to be distracted or diverted. There is no other Message—just this one. Every creature under heaven gets this same Message. I, Paul, am a messenger of this Message."
The Song
"God I Look to You" Jenn Johnson
