Christian Devotional-Stories and Bible verses about the presence of God in our lives

Redemption After The Fall

A true story of redemption- Redemption after the fall …

She sits in church…

Redemption after the fall

The pastor talks…

But she barely hears what he says…

Her mind focused elsewhere…

Focused on what she’s just learned from her son.

Then the pastor says one word…

One word that focuses her on every word that follows…

“Rescue,” says the pastor…

“God offers us rescue through Jesus.”

She heard that word just hours ago from her son…

“Rescue…”

He works installing elevators in tall buildings.

“I never told you, Mom,” he said on the phone.

“But a while ago, I fell…”

“…I fell five stories down an empty elevator shaft.”

“They weren’t sure I’d live.”

“I didn’t tell you…

“Because I didn’t want you to know.”

“I haven’t visited….”

“Because I didn’t want you to see.”

“I didn’t want to scare you.”

“I’m better now…

But I have a dream most nights…

“I hear somebody whispering one word…”

“Rescue.”

“I don’t think it’s about being rescued from that elevator shaft.

“Mom, you know how you’ve been praying for me?”

“Praying I would believe in Jesus?”

“I think that’s the kind of rescue the dream is about.”

The Mom’s thoughts turn back to the pastor.

“Rescue,” the pastor says again…

“We look for rescue when there’s nothing left…”

“When we have fallen so far from God…”

“That there is nothing we can do on our own…”

“When our only hope lies beyond ourselves…”

“Rescue,” the mom thinks…

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.  Ephesians 2:8-9

“Redemption…”

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.”  John 3:16-17

“Redemption after the fall …”

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, Romans 3:23 

Redemption after the fall …

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