Saturday, September 29, 2001
Saturday, September 29, 2001
Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I fear no evil; for you are
with me;
your rod and your staff they comfort me.
Someone has said that when the flood waters rise, all the fences are submerged. In
times of great
need the differences that separate people become irrelevant. All that matters is our
relationship
with God. All that matters is our faith!
(Psalm 23:4
NRSV)
T.L. Koo was one of the great Chinese Christian leaders in the 1930's. He once said
that when the
Japanese sent their planes in wave after wave over China, he and others had to go out
into the
field because they had no dugouts in the city. When the final air-raid warning sounded,
they knew
that in ten minutes the planes would arrive. Dr. Koo said that in those short ten minutes
he lived
through the experiences of a lifetime. A feeling of utter helplessness swept over him.
The usual
things with which people surrounded their lives suddenly lost their significance. Most of
them had
been thinking that if they had money in the bank, they would be fairly secure. As he sat
there
waiting for the coming attack, however, he realized that no amount of money could be
of any help
to him. He used to pride himself on the fact that he was a university graduate, but what
could a
PH.D. do for him as he sat there waiting for the planes? One after another all those
things fell
away until he saw that there under the sky in the fields he was before God just as he
was, stripped
of everything, nothing more to fall back on. And his lips began to whisper, "Yea though
I walk in
the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me." At that moment that was all
that
mattered.
Dear God, thank you for your faithfulness to me. Teach me to totally depend on you.
Amen.
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