29 March 2009
Don't Look Down
March/29/09
Can you remember your first day of school? Last Monday marked an eight year old autistic boy s first day in the classroom of a special needs school in Bangkok, Thailand. This little lad became so scared that he crawled out an open balcony window and perched himself on the ledge. Teachers attempted to persuade the boy to come back inside, but he was having none of it. The fire-rescue was called and even they couldn t budge the boy. Then the eight-year old s mother told the school about her son s love for superheroes. When Sonchai Yoosabai heard this he rushed back to the fire station, opened his locker, and dressed in his personal Spiderman suit. Now before you let your mind run away, he used the costume for safety lectures at local schools. Mr. Yoosabai returned to the scene and said to the frightened boy, Spiderman is here to rescue you; no monsters are going to attack you. Walk slowly towards me because running could be dangerous. The boy immediately stood up and walked into the hero s arms. All his fears were gone and he was safe once again because of his hero, Mr. Sonchai Yoosabai, alias Spidey.
I don t know about you, but in my life I have been out on a ledge; at least I feel like it was a ledge with a long way down if I fell.. Granted we sometime get ourselves on the ledge and other times we find ourselves there by no action of our own. And to be perfectly honest God allows us to teeter on the edge to learn lessons we could learn no other way. However, His motive is to draw us closer to him. Those situations make us search ourselves and produce a deeper faith. If we face the ledges of life with faith we know that God is the only real hero; because He will come to our rescue and we will find ourselves saved and resting in His loving arms. If you are on the ledge today take my advice; don t look down, just fix your eyes on Jesus the author and perfecter of your faith.