“Yea, though I walk through the valley
of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for You are with me; Your rod and
Your staff, they comfort me.” (Psalm
23:4 NKJV)
Dr. Donald Grey Barnhouse [long-time
pastor of Philadelphia's Tenth Presbyterian Church] told of the occasion of his
first wife’s death. He and his [young] children were driving from the burial,
overcome with grief. He searched for a word of comfort to offer but could think
of nothing. Just then, a large moving van drove by. As it passed, the shadow of
the truck swept over the car. An inspiration came to Dr. Barnhouse. He turned
to his family and asked, “Children, would you rather be run over by a truck or
by its shadow?”
The children said, “Well, of course,
Dad, we’d rather be run over by the shadow. That can’t hurt us at all.”
Dr. Barnhouse explained, “Did you know
that two thousand years ago the truck of death ran over the Lord Jesus… in
order that only its shadow might run over us?”
We face death, but thanks to Jesus, we
only face its shadow.
-- Max Lucado in “Traveling Light”
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