Our Heavenly Father Watches Over Us #512

Surfing with Jesus #51201302008
Pastor Gene A. Dasher, Sr.
gene@SurfingwithJesus.com.

Our Heavenly Father Watches Over Us

This story I found interesting. It is the legend of the Cherokee Indian youth's rite of passage. His father takes him into the forest, blindfolds him and leaves him alone. He is required to sit on a stump the whole night and not remove the blindfold until the rays of the morning sun shone through it. He cannot cry out for help to anyone. Once he survives the night, he is a MAN. He cannot tell the other boys of this experience, because each lad must come into manhood on his own.

The boy is naturally terrified. He can hear all kinds of noises. Wild beasts must surely be all around him. Maybe even some human might do him harm. The wind blew the grass and earth, and shook his stump, but he sat stoically, never removing the blindfold. It would be the only way he could become a man! Finally, after a horrific night the sun appeared and he removed his blindfold. It was then that he discovered his father sitting on the stump next to him. He had been at watch the entire night, protecting his son from harm.

I don’t know the validity of this story but it has a very good lesson. We, too, are never alone. Even when we don't know it, our Heavenly Father is watching over us, sitting on the stump beside us. When trouble comes, all we have to do is to be still & reach out to Him. What a wonderful God we serve. He alone is worthy of our praise.

Remember this one? “I sing because I’m happy, I sing because I’m free, His eyes are on the sparrow, and I know he watches me.” Rest assured he watches over you and is ever present to provide for you.

1 John 1:9 “If we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”

Pastor Gene A. Dasher, Sr.,
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