A story of unseen faith

Do you know the legend of the Cherokee Indian youth's rite of Passage? His

father takes him into the forest, blindfolds him and leaves him alone. He

is required  to sit on a stump the whole night and not remove the blindfold

until the rays of  the morning sun shine through it. He cannot cry out for

help to anyone. Once he survives the night, he is a MAN.

 

He cannot tell the other boys of this experience, because each lad must

come into manhood on his own. The boy is naturally terrified. He can hear

all kinds of noises. Wild beasts must surely be all around him. The wind

blew the  grass and earth, and shook his stump, but he sat stoically, never

removing the  blindfold. It would be the only way he could become a man!

 

Finally,  after a horrific night the sun appeared and he removed his

blindfold. It was  then that he discovered his father sitting on the stump

next to him. He had been  at watch the entire night, protecting his son from

harm. We, too, are never  alone. Even when we don't know it, God is watching

over us, sitting on the stump  beside us.. When trouble comes, all we have

to do is reach out to Him.  

 

Moral of the story: Just because you can't see God, doesn't mean He is  not

there. "For we walk by faith, not by sight.."

Sent to me by a friend as an encouragement to know that God is always there.