Insight for your “Journey across the Sky”

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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; For You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. _{Psalms 23:4 (NKJV)}

A popular cell phone company had a very effective advertising campaign a few years ago. The message of the ad was ’Can you hear me now?’. The idea being their company offered more service to more places then any of the other companies. Since then they have changed their strategy to include the message “It’s the network’ implying wherever you are, a hoard of people will be right there with you. One of the competitors is arguing they have ’More bars, more places’ then anyone else. No matter which carrier you choose anyone who has had a cell phone for any length of time knows all too well the experience of a dropped call.

Dropped calls occur when you enter a ’dead zone’ a place where there are no cell towers to communicate with. These ’dead zones’ never give you a warning unless you can constantly monitor the number of bars (your signal strength) you have at any given time. Otherwise you can be right in the middle of a word or sentence only to be saying those now famous words, ’Can you hear me now’?

Dead zones do not pose a problem when there is no actual emergency situation facing you. If on the other hand you find yourself stranded in a strange place, amid what would appear to be life threatening circumstances, you do not want to find out your phone company can not hear you now. Nor would you desire to have no bars in that particular place.

No matter how hard we try to constantly be in touch, it is virtually impossible for man to be all places at all times. Even the best cell phone service provider can not guarantee you will be able to make a call everywhere and at all times.

There is no such limitation on God’s ability to be everywhere at once. He is the only sure hope when faced with ’dead zone’ situations. You will never have to wonder if God can hear you now. You will not have to rely on any network or the number of bars. There is never a busy signal nor any dropped calls made to the hot line of heaven. He can surely say I can hear you now.

Even though you find yourself traveling through the dead zones of life, behold I am with you. You will always get a connection. _{Psalm 23:4 paraphrased}

But those who are waiting for the Lord will have new strength; they will get wings like eagles: running, they will not be tired, and walking, they will have no weariness. _{Isaiah 40:31 (BBE)}

Insight for your “Journey across the Sky”
A View from the Nest www.eagleviews.org

Whoever lives under the shelter of the Most High will remain in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, “{You are} my refuge and my fortress, my God in whom I trust.” He is the one who will rescue you from hunters’ traps and from deadly plagues. _{Psalms 91:1-3 (GW)}

’FX’ airs a program named ’Rescue Me’, a drama about life in a fictional New York City fire station. Each member has their own demons to deal with and the plot line includes the messed up lives of the players, who themselves, need to be rescued from the fires of temptation. Each actor’s shortcomings are ever present as this televised drama unfolds each week. ’Rescue Me’ cries volumes to the world as a testimony to people who give themselves to helping others, but are then unable to help themselves.

All of us at one time or another need to be rescued from the fires of life. Whether it is the need to be rescued from depression, drug addiction, harmful relationships, emotional distress, physical disease or suffering, poverty, homelessness, brokenness or any number of other things from which we need a helping hand. It is comforting to know that help is only a 911 call away.

Once the call comes in, the rescue personnel, although burdened by their own problems, rush to the aid of their fellow man. Reaching out a helping hand to others, many times, helps us forget, or perhaps get through, our own shortcomings. It is by doing for others that we are actually doing for ourselves. We can not reach out a helping hand to someone, without giving our own souls a lift as well. However, that feeling of accomplishment is only short lived, and once we are no longer needed to rescue someone else, we fall right back into the pit of hopelessness and despair, because there is no one to rescue us.

In the aftermath of hurricane Katrina many fingers were pointed as to whom should have done what, and why this, that, or the other thing was not done. Warnings were posted, the alarm had been sounded, weather forecasts showed, without question, the upcoming storm. Several days advance notice was given. The storm was coming. Still many refused to leave and would not heed the warnings until it was too late. Reports came in of people refusing to be rescued from their flooded homes by those who were sent to help them. Sad as it may appear, some preferred to stay in the mess they were in, rather than reach out to the helping hand sent to save them from their malaise.

Just like the television program, many people lead lives of quiet desperation, to quote Henry David Thoreau. It is in their own inabilities to deal with life and cope with problems, that they find relief, if ever so slight, in the rescuing of a fellow human being. By performing acts of bravery and rescue, one feels the joy and elation of being godlike to someone else, an angel of sorts, the bridge between life and death, hope or despair, rescue or disaster, all the while crying out on the inside- can’t anyone rescue me? Why is it that I seem to be the only one who cares enough to help someone else?

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