A chaplain in a jail told in his last letter about a woman who was feeling lonely and stressed. Wondering if God was even present, she started to pray the Prayer of Jabez from I Chronicles 4:10. Chaplain John had been doing a study on that passage in her facility for almost a month. When she got to the part that says, “May your hand be with me,” something caught her eye, and she looked out the small window in her cell. What she saw inspired her to write this poem:
I woke this morning with a heavy sigh,
Red eyes, puffy face, all night did I cry
Trying to find my way thorough this world,
Fighting off Demons that haunt this little girl
Can I really make it another day?
My heart is screaming as I begin to pray.
And then I saw it from the corner of my eye
A brilliant Lavender orange sunrise in the sky
And then cam our Father’s voice sill and clear
This sunrise is for You, I heard your prayer, I am here.
Pretty well sums up what we have been talking about. God is here. God is with us. II Corinthians 4:8-9 tells us: We are pressed on every side by troubles, but not crushed and broken. We are perplexed because we don't know why things happen as they do, but we don't give up and quit. We are hunted down, but God never abandons us. We get knocked down, but we get up again and keep going.
Yes, He is with us!
