Did It Really Happen?
If you rescue somebody and nobody
saw it and she doesn't remember it, did it really happen?
One rainy day as I drove home
from work, I rounded the corner on our street. A construction crew had been
working there and had dug a ditch between the sidewalk and the street, which
had filled with the rainwater runoff. I
looked over at it and noticed a fragile elderly lady deep in the ditch full of cold
water struggling to climb up the muddy sides.
I stopped and ran over to her.
She was winded from struggling. I held her hand and talked to her.
I did not have a cell phone in
those days and there wasn't anybody out in the rain to summons for help along
the street. Her shivering began to worse. We held hands and I pulled as she struggled
for traction - and she made it out. She
looked fine, other than cold. I walked
her to her door where her elderly husband met us. She went in to change and I went home, also wet
from the rain.
The next day, I stopped in to see
how she was doing. The rain had stopped and the hole had been filled. When I
talked with her, she didn't remember the event at all. Nobody had seen my gallant rescue, she didn't
remember it and probably nobody would believe it. I know that God saw it and
remembers it.
It reminds me how Jesus saved
me. It was not a big event in the eyes
of many. Some didn't see it at all, and some don't believe it anyway. Did it really happen? God and I know it did
and even if I one day forget, He hasn't.
I have been saved!
"Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come
unto God by him…" Hebrews 7:25a .
© copyright Kevin T Boekhoff
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