Do You Know Him?

I was listening to Focus on the Family on the radio the other day; Steven Curtis Chapman was a guest. He is a Christian singer/songwriter that recently lost his young daughter in a tragic accident this last May. The Chapman family had adopted her from China. He was sharing his heart about their loss - the pain, the questions, the memories - it was heartwrenching; as a mom I can not even fathom what they have gone through and have often wondered if my faith is strong enough to endure such despair. In Romans 12:3 we are told God has given us a measure of faith - it is not my faith, it is God's faith...that He has given to us; He is our Comfort. I know God's faith can do anything...get thru anything...overcome anything and He gives that to me...to us...in our time of need. If I have to count on anything of myself - I'm doomed - I know me and I am weak, but praise God - greater is He that is in me and He has given me a measure of faith. I think that is important, too, it is always what we need when we need it and that measure can be increased - see Luke 17:5 - as we need it.

Anyway, I kind of got off on a tangent here...something Mr. Chapman said really struck me. He was asked if he was angry with God for what has happened...(I'm sorry, I don't remember his exact response but this is what I got from it)...he asked, how could he be mad at God, for it is because of Him that he will be with His precious daughter again. Wow - I guess I have thought about that before but this time it really "entered" in...deep. If God would not have made a way (remember, He is The Way - the only way, in or out), we would all be floating around down here, just trying to make the best of it, with no hope, no help, no happy ending, no anything - nothing - we would forever be separated from our loved ones - never to see them again.

I don't mean to sound morbid or all doom and gloom, but I think because of this trip coming up I have been thinking about my own mortality - the "what ifs". I believe I will be returning safely home and will be fine but "what if?" and I think that is a little natural and probably the wife and mother in me wanting to make sure my family will be taken care of. Plus I've been going over everything like accounts, insurance, etc. so my husband can find everything just in case a "what if" happens.

Mr. Chapman said that while he was with his daughter those last few moments of her life, he asked the doctors and nurses that were around them if they realized they were standing on holy ground...that they were standing at the door of eternity? This father was placing his precious daughter into the arms of Jesus...did they know Him? He was the one that gave this sweet child life, orchestrated the events of her life so she could be brought up in a Christian home with a loving family, and, yes, even numbered her days. This father wanted them to know her - really know her, not as a patient, but everything about her that made her so special, but to do that now, they had to know Him.

Do you know Him?