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An
old joke has flood waters creeping closer to where a man sits on the roof of
his house. In a loud voice, he prays,
“Lord, please come to my rescue in my hour of great need!” A few minutes later, a neighbor paddles his
canoe up next to the man and invites him to come join him in the canoe. “No,” the man answers, I have prayed to the
Lord, and I must remain where I am until He sees fit to deliver me out of this
peril.” As the neighbor was paddling
away while shaking his head in disbelief over the man’s refusal to be rescued
by him, he noticed that the flood waters were now almost up the man’s waist as
he clung to the chimney sticking out of the roof of his house. In an even louder voice, the man prayed
again, “Lord, please come to my rescue in my hour of great need!!” A few minutes later, a large rubber raft,
with several members of the Navy onboard, floated right up next to him, and a
Naval officer told him to reach out his hand in order to make it easier to be brought
into the raft. Again, the man answered
the call for him to accept help, “No, I have prayed to the Lord, and I must
remain where I am until He sees fit to deliver me out of this peril.” The Naval personnel all had looks of great
shock on their faces as they speed off to go help someone else, and after they
had went a fair piece away, one of them told the commanding officer that he had
seen through a pair of binoculars that the man was now hanging from the top of
his chimney, with his head barely above the water line. In a voice that now sounded more like a
scream than a prayer, the man cried out, “Lord, please come to my rescue in my
hour of great need!!!” A few minutes
later, a Coast Guard helicopter eased over his position, and a rescue diver dove
into the water to help him get into the basket that was being lowered from the
helicopter. Again, the man answered the
call for him to accept help, “No, I have prayed to the Lord, and I must remain
where I am until He sees fit to deliver me out of this peril.” The helicopter was not quite out of sight
before the flood waters rose above his head, and the man drowned. When the man stood before the Lord on
Judgment Day, he asked Him, “Why did you not come to my rescue?” With great sadness in His voice, the Lord
answered him, “My son, I sent two different types of watercraft and a
helicopter, but refused to see my hand at work.”
The
absolute truth of the matter truly is that far too many in the Christian
community fail to see our Heavenly Father’s hand at work because of the
situation at hand not fitting in with their beliefs. Alas, who can truly see without looking at
things through His eyes, but who is so blind as the one who refuses to see?
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