Acts 6:1-7 / John
6:16-21
The disciples run into trouble: The Lord was with them in their trouble.
There’s a famous poem called “Footprints.” It’s about
a person, in a dream, walking along a beach with the Lord. Suddenly, across the
sky, scenes appear from the person’s life. For each scene, two sets of footprints appear in the
sand: one belonging to the Lord, the other to the person. What confuses the
person is that during the most trying times in life only one set of footprints
appears. When the person asks the Lord why he left during these most trying
times, the Lord says, “I would never leave you during your times of trial and
suffering. When you see only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried
you.”