Reality as God Sees It

If I were stranded in the desert with no water, no vehicle, no one for miles around, in the scorching heat, with only a knife for company, what should I do? Give up hope? Take my life to avoid the suffering? Give in to the heat and just go crazy? What if there were two of us and only enough water for one to survive the crossing?

Remember these dilemmas in school? Seriously, the teacher would offer these scenarios and we students were expected to give reasoned responses.

So, what would you do? Situations like this do happen all the time. When a person feels trapped, at the end of their rope, in a hopeless situation, what is the right thing to do? Do rules of right still apply?

The whole question boils down to this: is God there with you? If He is, then hope is present. If not, then it really doesn’t matter whether you think you will be alright or not. You’re dead.

We trap ourselves so often by our own foolishness (“what were you doing out there in the desert to begin with?”). But what kills us is that we do not call on the Lord in faith. We either do not think to or care to, or we do not believe there is anything that even God could do to get us out of the jam. How often have men died because the God of hope was nowhere in their sights! But those of us who walk with Him daily should have no such problem.

Many times a believing student would give the answer that the Lord would make a way. Or if it came down to it, that they would sacrifice their life that the other in the party could live. When God is your partner wherever you go, nothing is hopeless, nothing impossible. Think about it. Even the common sense aspect of it works. If you face a crisis in the calmness of faith, you think better, you see things more clearly, and options come more easily to you.

In all our going this summer, remember to take your Best Friend along. And remember this: reality is always what God says it is, not what our pitiful minds might conjecture or surmise. Praise God!

Psalm 107

1. Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever.
2. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom He has redeemed from the hand of the enemy,
3. And gathered out of the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south.

Terry