Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Dangling in the Dark - #8294

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

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It started out as one of the scarier experiences of my wife’s childhood. Her grandfather had dropped his valuable pen into the well in their yard, and there was only one way it could be retrieved: if someone was lowered down there on a rope…someone small…like a little four-year old girl. Soon my wife found herself with a rope tied securely around her, being lowered into the darkness of that well, sort of dangling in the dark. She got the pen and she shed a lot of the fear as she did it. She told me, “I knew I’d be OK because my father was holding the rope.” If you belong to Jesus Christ, so is yours.

I’m Ron Hutchcraft, and you may be in a season right now where it feels like you’re sort of dangling in the dark; you’re not sure where all this is going, what’s ahead of you, you’ve got more questions than answers. Well, the good news is, your Heavenly Father is holding the rope.

The psalmist asked this disturbing question: “When the foundations are being destroyed, what can the righteous do?” The answer, “The Lord is in His holy temple; the Lord is on His heavenly throne” (Psalm 11:3-4 ). When everything is moving and shaking, your Father isn’t, and He is holding the rope. He will determine how fast you go and how far you go. It’s not your environment that’s controlling things, it’s your Father. So no matter how dark it is, no matter how scary it feels, you are safe because your Father is holding the rope!

Maybe you yearn for that kind of a close relationship with the Heavenly Father. Jesus can make it possible, and we’d like to show you how. Would you visit our website…ALifeThatMatters.org?

This radio program references: Psalm 11:3-4