Hey,
Yesterday I watched a program on Amazon that used to come on tv a long time ago. It is called “I Shouldn’t Be Alive”. In this episode, there was a young vibrant girl who was an athlete. She was a well-known runner and trained for high endurance marathons etc.. She went out for a morning run in a secluded area with her dog, and she slipped off the side and fell a long ways off a cliff severing her entire pelvis area. Her legs were only attached to her mid-section by soft tissue and vessels. As I watched this, I listened as the story was told of her incredible self-will. How she was so strong in body that she willed herself to live the first 2 nights. After the first night, she noticed a soft sack appearing in her abdomen area; she was bleeding internally. Again, they spoke of her survival through the night and her willing herself and her body to live. On the 3rd day, she was dying and she knew it. She was exhausted and had no more strength in herself to “will herself to live” anymore. She began crying, sobbing, and crying out for help. And immediately as she was crying out, there was a man right there to rescue her.
Seeing it from God’s point of view, that was all He was waiting on – for her to realize that her own self will wasn’t going to save her and if she would cry out to Him for help, He would be right there. It really struck me. And, God was already setting things up in the background for when she finally humbled herself that her help was already on the way! I just loved that. What a story.
They told her she would never walk again, but she did, and not only that, she married and had a baby. Jesus had something waiting for her on the other side. She wept as she told the story. It is a good parallel of what Jesus will do for us if we surrender ourselves to God’s will. We have no idea what Jesus has waiting for us on the other side, if we just humble ourselves and call out for help.
Touching story.
Amy B