Today's Devotional

At the age of nine, I was running in my grandmother’s backyard and fell into an open garbage pit that had filled with water during a heavy rain. Somehow I managed to stretch my hand out. A person witnessing the incident grabbed my outstretched hand and rescued me. As soon as I was out of the pit, covered with putrid garbage, people washed me and then provided medical care.

This incident reminds me of our human condition. Every day people fall into the pit of sin, and every day we also know that the hand of Christ is there to rescue us. Christ is waiting for us to stretch out our hand so he can save us, so he can wash our sins away.

In the gospel story about Peter walking on the water, when Peter began to sink he cried out, “Lord, save me!” Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and saved him. Once I was heading to spiritual death in the deep and dirty pit of sin. Then Christ saved me. Alone I couldn’t free myself from my dark and fatal situation, but by faith I reached out to take the hand of the Savior.

Charlotte Mande Kasongo-Lenge (South Africa) — See. p. 21.