Who Are You Reaching For?

     Yesterday, we saw history in the making! We saw 33 miners rescued from a collapsed mine in Chile. They were there for 69 days. Imagine what it would be like to be stuck in a small, rock room, the length of three football fields below ground. For 17 days, they did not know if people would know where to find them and they had no way of letting them know they were still alive. Families assumed the worse and considered them dead. There was even a mass held in their memory. Then a 12" inch hole was drilled and hit the room where they were. They were able to tell their families they were alive. However, they then had a 52 day wait to be rescued. “Would they be able to hold on while rescue supplies were created, made, and implemented?” seemed to be the question everyone wondered. Yesterday, we saw all of them rescued with no fatalities. God is good!  When one of the first men was rescued he made an interesting statement, “I starred at God and the Devil, and I reached out for God!” 
     Often we find ourselves in pits. We can’t see clearly and we have no idea how long we are going to be in the situation. In those times, we are face to face with the Devil and God. Satan tries to use the situation to draw us away from God. He makes us question, worry, and fear. He will drive us insane if we allow him. God tries to draw us closer. He offers us trust, rest, and peace. He will be our Rock and our Light. He will make us stronger for having endured. Both stand before you in your situation. Who are you going to reach out too?

God can’t break his word. And because his word cannot change, the promise is likewise unchangeable. We who have run for our very lives to God have every reason to grab the promised hope with both hands and never let go. It’s an unbreakable spiritual lifeline, reaching past all appearances right to the very presence of God.

Hebrews 6:18-19