When each of our children started driving I can remember clearly the first time they drove somewhere on their own. I trusted them to be safe but we keep watching from them to come down the road. When traffic was heavy or they stayed a little later than planned the waiting part was hard because I had no idea what was happening. (these are the days before cell phones).
When we are watching and waiting for others the burdens on our hearts is heavy. Abraham had pleaded with God to spare Sodom where Lot was living but he did not know what took place. Was Lot safe, did he and his family escape, what choices were made, did God intervene? All of these thought must have gone through his mind.
The source of my confort when I was worried about my children was the fact that I knew that God cared for them better than I ever could because He could watch over them every moment of every day.
Gen 19:27-29 27 Now Abraham arose early in the morning and went to the place where he had stood before the Lord; 28 and he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the valley, and he saw, and behold, the smoke of the land ascended like the smoke of a furnace. 29 Thus it came about, when God destroyed the cities of the valley, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot lived. NAS
We can watch, we can wait and we can pray but God is the one who can intervene just as He did for Lot.
Today put those we care about into the hands of God. Find strength by trusting Him to watch and care for them.
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