My family decided to go to a snowy mountain yesterday. The view was spectacular but all we could do was take a mental picture. There was absolutely nowhere to stop and park. The moment my husband decided to stop on the side which looked to be leveled, little did he know we were going to get stuck in the snow. He tried to maneuver his way out, but the car just pivoted to the right, deeper into the snow.
You’d think being up on a mountain not many would come by. It certainly looked like not many people were going where we were going. Just as we were trying to get unstuck, a wave of cars started to come from the opposite direction. They stopped and gave us a hand. There were also a bunch of able-bodied teenage boys who happened to be in the van to help push the car. All I could remember was seeing the word “Church” on the van. My mind was preoccupied by what just happened and the reality of the element being so treacherous.
How many people think they can do this and that not really thinking about what could happen to them. It brings me to the sad story of a man who merely wanted take a shortcut whose life ended up getting claimed in the process. On the way home, it made for a bridge to talk to the children about some who climb mountains to take pictures and never come back down. What happened yesterday could happen to anyone, some with a good ending (like ours obviously) and some leading to their demise.
As for us, God sent help just in time. How those people got there at the exact time we needed help was not a fruit of mere coincidence. Even then, the lesson to be learned is to be prepared. Going up a mountain without a shovel and traction chains is a no no but this runs deeper than the physical.
When something like this happens to you and there is no one to rescue you and the only seeming rescue is death, are you prepared to meet God?
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“God sent help just in time.”
Yes ma’am He sure did!! 🙏🏻💕
For sure and no doubt!!! Funny thing was, my husband wanted to leave the house much earlier. I had to do something and we left a bit late. Had we left much earlier, those people would probably not have been there yet to help us at the exact time they were there. Amazing really.
👍🏻 G O D!! 🙏🏻❤️
Amen!
I LOVE THIS! What a bridge, a teachable moment, that was. This lesson, message, visual will be with them forever!
“And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. 8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates” Deuteronomy 6:6-9
Yes it was and Amen!!! Thank you for the accompanying verses!
[…] We passed through enough snow-capped mountains from Utah to OR when we moved here in December of 2016. The last time we headed to the mountains for snow in 2019, we got stuck on the road by the mountain and by God’s grace, someone happened to pass through to help us out. […]