You Can Trust Your Father

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Encouragement for your daily walk with God

There’s a legend about some botanists exploring the remote regions of Mt. Hermon, the highest peak in Israel. They had met to catalogue the species of flora in the area. 

One day, they noticed a flower of great beauty. It was so rare that none of the botanists knew its name. They wanted to examine in but it lay deep in a ravine with high cliffs on both sides. To get to it, someone had to be lowered by a rope. 

A curious young boy was watching them, and the group told him they would pay him well if he would agree to be lowered over the cliff to retrieve the flower below.

After a long look down the steep cliff, the boy said, “I’ll be back in a minute.” A short time later he returned, followed by a gray-haired man. Approaching the botanists, the boy said, “I’ll go over the cliff and get the flower for you if he gets to hold the rope. He’s my dad.” His assurance was based in the trustworthiness of his father. 

A Christ follower has that kind of confidence in our Heavenly Father. We can trust Him to hold us even when it seems we are on the very edge!

My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth, and mine arm shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and on mine arm shall they trust. Isaiah 51:5