“In the wilderness where you saw how the Lord your God carried you, just as a man carries his son.”
Deuteronomy 1:31 (NASB)
Once in a while we hear a story of how God seemed to carry a person through a trying time in their life. When I hear a testimony of a person’s spiritual and miraculous experience, I just have to share it. The Lord knows we hear enough bad news each day, so here is a miracle to meditate on.
A young man named Mark, along with his parents, told this story in a documentary about events that cannot be explained in any other way except being a miracle. When Mark was 12 years old, he went hiking in the woods near his home in rural Missouri, and was bitten by a venomous snake. The snake’s fangs bit through his pants piercing the skin of his ankle area.
Both his legs started to become numb and his eyesight was getting blurry. Mark was all alone, about 150 yards from his home, and since he could no longer walk, he tried to crawl home, but grew increasingly weaker.
Before becoming unresponsive, Mark remembered being picked up by a man wearing a white robe with a red belt. While being carried in his arms he remembers that the man told him he was going to be alright. Then Mark lost consciousness.
No one witnessed what happened after he lost consciousness, but somehow Mark was found by his mother on the kitchen floor of their home. His parents immediately rushed him to the hospital, as the bite wound on his ankle swelled.
He could not have crawled home by himself since he was paralyzed from the snake venom and passed out. How could an unresponsive boy get from the woods straight to his home? The only explanation is that the man in the white robe was his guardian angel, and carried him home.
By the time he got to the hospital, his breathing was very shallow, but he was treated with antivenin, and recovered two days later. When he awoke, he told his parents about the mysterious white robed man who assured him that he would be alright, and carried him home. No one else but a twelve year boy saw the angel that day, but there is no other explanation for how Mark got home just in time to get to the hospital, where his life was saved.
God knew that it was not Mark’s time to die, and today he is a father, raising a son of his own. As a man would carry his own son, the angel of the Lord carried him home in time to get medical help which saved his life.
We need reminders of the goodness of God, and because of His paternal love for all of us, He appoints angels to keep watch over us, and our children.
Lord, thank you for the miraculous messengers and helpers you have ordered to take care of us, even though we may never see them. You are a good Father, who cares for us, and will carry us if necessary. Amen
