More about the Coots.
5/15/2015
Do
you feel you are like a coot, unnoticed, insignificant, unimpressive in this world?
Your
family may not have treated you well.
You did not impress your teachers at school . . .
So
some day this little coot was hungry, running around seeking for food, but found none. She got desperate, eventually she collapsed
on the sand, crying out "caw, caw".
The
Bible said God heard its cry.
You
say, that is impossible, the world has 6 billion people like me, and may be 1 billion coots. How can God listen to one little coot?
Have
you known some governments are producing computer gadgets that some day will monitor all people on earth,
on their actions, even on their thoughts, by sealing some gadget on their forehead under
the skin . . .
If
humans can do such, why can God not hear all our cries? Hmmm.
Q. You mean there is some One out there that has
an interest for me, this little flotsam of protoplasm in this
universe?
A.
That is what the Bible tells you.
Q.
Would His heart be touched with my desperate cries and my pains?
A.
That is what Psalm 147 says.
Another
story: Father Abraham has a maid Hagar, who got pregnant under permission by her mistress Sarah, bore a
son Ishmael, but one day the mistress also got pregnant, and so there is
no more room for Hagar and the boy Ishmael. So they got kicked out of the house, and
wandered in the desert, parched and thirsty. Ishmael fainted, and Hagar went under another bush, and cried her heart out. God heard her cry. Pointed her to a little spring of water, and she and Ismael
survived.
Q. Good story.
But does it mean this God is real.
A. Try Him.
Wait someday you have something hanging on your heart. You can pray, "Father God. Woolywootle the Old Man told me You are real. If so, please hear my cry . . . and deliver
my loved one from his/her plight, and deliver me from all these tears
. . . "
Q. You think this will work?
A. If you have a sincere heart, you will see Him
as a merciful Hand in control of your life. You should be ready to say, "If He is
God, I am ready to change my attitude in life,
and seek Him more."
Q. I will give it a try.
A. Many did.
I'll tell you some stories next time.
