Rev. Ray and Pat Amos
Genesis 28:15
DEVOTION FOR TODAY, November 19, 2020
“Behold I am with you and will keep you wherever you go…”
Years ago, in South Dakota Pat and I were living in a basement apartment. We were awakened from sleep in the early hours by the sound of a child crying outside our door. We opened the door to find a little boy and his blanket. He was from the upstairs apartment where his parents had been having a party. He had wandered out the door and could not get back in. They never even noticed their child slip out the door into the night… I remember another story:
The young man left and wandered into the night. Yesterday, he was home with all its comforts, tonight the woods were dark and cold, and the stony ground was hard. Some would say, “You made your bed, now sleep in it.”
A Mother’s tear-filled eyes strained into the unseen darkness; then she would look up into the night sky. It seemed that she could only worry and wonder. Where was her son sleeping that night? Would she have been comforted if she had known where he was, and who was with him?
He slept beneath a stairway that suspended between Heaven and earth. At the top of the steps was the presence of the Lord. Jacob was not alone. The hymn says, “Though like the wanderer, the sun gone down, Darkness be over me, my rest a stone; Yet in my dreams I’d be nearer, my God, to Thee.”
I am not sure why, but this is the burden on my mind this morning. This song always touches my heart: “God on high, hear my prayer, in my need you have always been there. He is young, he’s afraid; let him rest, Heaven blessed. Bring him home, bring him home, bring him home.”
Here is another reason to give thanks for Jesus. He sees the lonely and lost, even when they are a long way off. “O yes, He cares, I know He cares…”
Grace and Peace, Rev Ray
“Link to YouTube Video – God on High Hear My Prayer”
“Link to YouTube Video – Bring God Him Home”
