Is Christ There: Footprints in the Sand

I am sure most of us are familiar with the popular poem "Footprints in the Sand". It always gives me encouragement when I am feeling a little down. I wanted to write a blog about it, but as I was thinking where I would go with it  and searching for some good pictures for the blog, I thought of a way to add more meaning and feeling to it. The Bulk of it will remain unchanged, but there is something more we sometimes forget.

One night a man had a dream. 

He dreamed he was walking along the beach with [Christ]. Across the sky flashed scenes from his life. For each scene he noticed two sets of footprints in the sand: one belonging to him, and the other to [Christ]. When the last scene of his life flashed before him, he looked back at the footprints in the sand.

 

 

He noticed that many times along the path of his life there was only one set of footprints. He also noticed that it happened at the very lowest and saddest times in his life. This really bothered him and he questioned [Christ] about it:

"Lord, you said that once I decided to follow you, you'd walk with me all the way. But I have noticed that during the most troublesome times in my life, there is only one set of footprints. I don't understand why when I needed you most you would leave me." 

 

 

[Christ] replied:

"My son, my precious child, I love you and I would never leave you. During your times of trial and suffering, when you see only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you [with the cross I carried to Golgotha]

John 19:17-18 "And [He] bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha: Where they crucified [Him], and two other with [Him], on either side one, and Jesus in the midst."

Let us not forget in the times we are struggling, Christ will carry me and He will carry you, until we have all made it back to live with Him and our Heavenly Father again. And let us not forget Christ is our Shepard. He will leave the 99 to find the one. These things I know to be true.