"Porque en su mano están las profundidades de la tierra, y las alteras de los montes son suyas."
Salmo 95:4
"In his hands are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to him."
Psalm 95:4
After 69 days of being trapped in the depths of the earth, the miners in Chile have finally been rescued! 69 days without sunlight, without their families, without all the things we consider necessities in the normal world. In Spanish we watched some clips from the rescue. What struck me more than the rescue itself (it took each miner 20 minutes to reach the surface) was the miners themselves, and how even after this traumatizing time they were still able to give God glory and praise. Almost all of the miners when they surfaced were wearing shirts with the above verse printed on the back and the words 'Gracias Señor' (Thank you Lord) on the front. "Porque en su mano están las profundidades de la tierra..." The depths of the earth, and the miners trapped within them, are in His hands. No matter where we are, or what trial faces us we are in God's hands. He is in control. How easy would it have been for those miners to give up? To lose hope? To say my God is not big enough to save me from this? But they didn't give up. They didn't give in to Satan telling them that God didn't care enough about them to rescue them, that God isn't big enough to save us even from the very depths of the earth. In an interview with one of the miners after being rescued he said, "I was with God, and I was with the devil, but God won." God wins. Always. He is in control, even in the darkest times. He is and always will be all powerful. No matter where we are, for even the very depths of the earth and the highest mountain peaks are in his hands. He is Lord over all, and he will take care of his children. Gracias Señor.
"Porque en su mano están las profundidades de la tierra, y las alturas de los montes son suyas."
