The boys in a Thai soccer team got inadvertently trapped in a cave and were in danger for 18 days before rescue attempts were successful--this newsflash spread around the world like wildfire and enraptured and engrossed the people of every nation's attention and concern away from politics. Prayer certainly went out, and volunteers, professionals, and expert divers from all over the world (some 1,000) came to the rescue and conducted a coordinated and concerted plan of attack.
One wonders why God would allow such meaningless jeopardy and some even though it was the kid's fault for venturing into the cave in the first place--but when you're pointing the finger in blame you cannot solve the problem at hand. I'm sure they were on every Christian's prayer list who watched the news and knew about it. This was an answer to prayer and proves prayer works and changes things. These boys will not be able to forget nor deny this experience with answered prayer and I hope the world will neither; this was nothing short of a miracle in its timing.
The point, in fact, is that we do not realize God's grace unless we see it in contrast to what comes natural or is deserved. Grace is giving us what we don't deserve, while mercy is not giving us what we deserve--they go hand in hand. It was not fortuitous that the cave's pump failed soon after the last boy was rescued and they escaped in the nick of time--a sign of Providence guiding the operation and that cannot be denied by anyone of faith. This is an answer to prayer, but there are skeptics who can find some reason to discount it and attribute it all to coincidence. But with God, there are no flukes or coincidences--not even luck! These boys were not lucky, but fortunate beneficiaries of God's grace and blessing!
The lesson learned is that we saw that there is still some good in the world and that we can focus on something besides ourselves and our world, and even current events and news cycles that are so nerve-wracking. Truly, there might be movie rights and this team may become adopted as the world's boy soccer team and enrapture the world's love and admiration for their courage and the miracle of their rescue which involved only the best of the best divers and organizers in the world. It was a concerted effort and the world can be proud it pulled together for this. Now we know what courage and bravery are by their example in survival and rescue as a lesson from God.
So this may have just happened as God's way of getting our attention and a wakeup call to see if we will glorify God and reward those who seem to have thankless professions behind the scenes--God meant it for good.
CAVEAT: THIS COULD'VE BEEN YOUR KIDS AND THIS MAY HAVE BEEN A TEST TO SEE IF YOU CARE FOR THOSE IN NEED AND APPRECIATE OUR UNSUNG HEROES. Let's all thank and praise God WHO WAS FRONT AND CENTER BEHIND ALL THE DRAMA AND TRAGEDY! Soli Deo Gloria!
One wonders why God would allow such meaningless jeopardy and some even though it was the kid's fault for venturing into the cave in the first place--but when you're pointing the finger in blame you cannot solve the problem at hand. I'm sure they were on every Christian's prayer list who watched the news and knew about it. This was an answer to prayer and proves prayer works and changes things. These boys will not be able to forget nor deny this experience with answered prayer and I hope the world will neither; this was nothing short of a miracle in its timing.
The point, in fact, is that we do not realize God's grace unless we see it in contrast to what comes natural or is deserved. Grace is giving us what we don't deserve, while mercy is not giving us what we deserve--they go hand in hand. It was not fortuitous that the cave's pump failed soon after the last boy was rescued and they escaped in the nick of time--a sign of Providence guiding the operation and that cannot be denied by anyone of faith. This is an answer to prayer, but there are skeptics who can find some reason to discount it and attribute it all to coincidence. But with God, there are no flukes or coincidences--not even luck! These boys were not lucky, but fortunate beneficiaries of God's grace and blessing!
The lesson learned is that we saw that there is still some good in the world and that we can focus on something besides ourselves and our world, and even current events and news cycles that are so nerve-wracking. Truly, there might be movie rights and this team may become adopted as the world's boy soccer team and enrapture the world's love and admiration for their courage and the miracle of their rescue which involved only the best of the best divers and organizers in the world. It was a concerted effort and the world can be proud it pulled together for this. Now we know what courage and bravery are by their example in survival and rescue as a lesson from God.
So this may have just happened as God's way of getting our attention and a wakeup call to see if we will glorify God and reward those who seem to have thankless professions behind the scenes--God meant it for good.
CAVEAT: THIS COULD'VE BEEN YOUR KIDS AND THIS MAY HAVE BEEN A TEST TO SEE IF YOU CARE FOR THOSE IN NEED AND APPRECIATE OUR UNSUNG HEROES. Let's all thank and praise God WHO WAS FRONT AND CENTER BEHIND ALL THE DRAMA AND TRAGEDY! Soli Deo Gloria!
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