A loving father shows us the way of God

God promises us that He will always be there for us!  Maybe this story can illustrate that.

                          

                           “I’ll Always be There for You!

It’s a fascinating story that comes from the 1989 earthquake, which almost flattened Armenia.  This deadly tremor killed over 30,000 people in less than four minutes.  In the midst of all the confusion of the earthquake, a father rushed to his son’s school.  When he arrived there he discovered the building was flat as a pancake.

Standing there looking at what was left of the school, the father remembered a promise he made to his son, “No matter what, I’ll always be there for you!”  Tears began to fill his eyes.  It looked like a hopeless situation, but he could not take his mind off his promise.

Remembering that his son’s classroom was in the back right corner of the building, the rather rushed there and started digging through the rubble.  As he was digging other grieving parents arrived, clutching their hearts saying: “My son! “My daughter!”  They tried to pull him off of what was left of the school saying, “It’s too late!”  “ They’re dead!” “You can’t help!” “Go home! “

Even a police officer & a fire fighter told him he should go home.      To everyone who tried to stop him he said, “Are you going to help me now?”  They did not answer him & he continued digging for his son stone by stone.

He needed to know for himself: “Is my boy alive or is he dead?”    This man dug for eight hours & then twelve & then twenty-four & then thirty-six.  Finally in the thirty-eighth hour, as he pulled a boulder, he heard his son’s voice.

He screamed his son’s name; “Armand!” & a voice answered him, “Dad?”  It’s me Dad!” then the boy added these priceless words, “I told the other kids not to worry.  I told ‘em that if you were alive, you’d save me & when you saved me, they’d be saved.

You promised that, Dad. “No matter what,” you said, “I’ll always be there for you!’ And here you are Dad.  You kept your promise!”

God promises us that He will always be there for us, and God doesn’t break His promises!

May God Be Praised!