Footprints

ONE NIGHT A MAN HAD A DREAM THAT HE WAS WALKING ALONG THE BEACH WITH JESUS. ACROSS THE SKY FLASHED SCENES FROM HIS LIFE. FOR EVERY SCENE HE SAW TWO SETS OF FOOTPRINTS IN THE SAND. ONE BELONGED TO HIM AND THE OTHER TO JESUS.

BUT DURING THE SADDEST, LONELIEST AND MOST DIFFICULT TIMES THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE HE NOTICED THERE WAS ONLY ONE SET OF FOOTPRINTS.

THIS REALLY BOTHERED HIM AND HE QUESTIONED JESUS; “LORD YOU TOLD ME THAT ONCE I DECIDED TO FOLLOW YOU, YOU’D WALK WITH ME ALL THE WAY. BUT DURING THE MOST TROUBLESOME TIMES OF MY LIFE I SEE ONLY ONE SET OF FOOTPRINTS. WHY WHEN I NEEDED YOU MOST WOULD YOU LEAVE ME?”

JESUS REPLIED; “I LOVE YOU AND I WOULD NEVER LEAVE YOU. DURING YOUR TIMES OF HARDSHIP AND SUFFERING, WHEN YOU SEE ONLY ONE SET OF FOOTPRINTS, IT WAS THEN THAT I CARRIED YOU.”