There was a massive earthquake in Armenia in 1989. It lasted mere 4 minutes but took the life of nearly 30,00 people. Measuring 8.2 on the Richter scale, it must have been a tremendously powerful quake. Around a school flattened in the quake, many parents stood shedding tears for their missing children, and then returned home, but for one man. This man moved around looking for the place where his son’s classroom was and he began to remove the debris chunk by chunk. The policemen, fire fighters and rescue workers tried all their means to dissuade him from doing so. But he would not yield! 

Lost in thoughts of his beloved son and not heeding to their words, he kept searching. And …. 2… 4 … 8 … 16 …30 … 38 hours went past. Then suddenly he heard a voice …. the voice of his son. He jumped for joy because beneath the debris he saw that his son Armand and some of his friends had taken refuge under a beam that had wedged in like a triangle as it fell. Armand told his father, ‘Daddy, I told my friends that my daddy had told me that whatever happens he will be with me … so if my father is alive, he will surely come to rescue me. Thus, Armand and his friends returned safely to their homes.

As you read this account, whatever be the circumstance that you are going through, try to cling to the promises your heavenly Father has given you because He who made the promise is faithful. This account is about an earthly father who fulfilled the promise he made to his son. If so, how much more faithful is our heavenly Father … hallelujah … Amen!!

“Because I live, you will live also”, said Jesus in John 14: 19.