Robbed!

When we arrived home - weary from traveling and excited to be 'home' - we stepped in the front door and stopped dead. Both my husband and I were speechless.

Our eyes were immediately drawn to the curtainless kitchen window, the black welding marks on the iron bars over the window, and the chunks of red mud smeared on the floor. All at once we saw the police report on the counter and it clicked - we had been the victims of a heartless crime.

My eyes burned with tears. In disbelief, we wandered through the house - afraid to learn of what had been stolen. The security company had locked all the bedroom doors after responding to the alarm. And the keys were no where to be found. Great. Who has them?

To make a long story short, we were able to find the keys. They were in safe hands - the security company. Praise the Lord! So again, in disbelief, we wandered through the house - afraid to learn of what had been stolen. Exposed. Vulnerable. Violated. Angry. Broken. Afraid. Pity for people we love so much. Where had they been? What had they seen? What had they done in the cover of darkness?

We had hid some of the electronic items that we possess in the event that we were robbed. Thankfully, they did not have time to find those items as the alarm was blaring and they only had minutes till our armed response came.

Thankfully they didn't steal much. And what they did steal were things that were ready to be replaced anyway! In amongst the turmoil of such a thing, I marvelled at the protection of the Lord and His mercy.

I was comforted with the story of Noah, oddly enough. Sometimes life's circumstances are out of our control. Sometimes, with eyes of flesh, I make the error of thinking that perhaps God wasn't looking. However, God is in control. God IS in control. I imagined what Noah must've felt like in that ark. Rain pouring. Death surrounding them on the other side of that gopher wood ark. Of course we can read the whole story in 2 minutes and see how it all played out. But put yourself in his shoes. With eyes of flesh, I'm sure at times, he wondered if God had forgotten them. But God remembered Noah and his family. Through it all God was in perfect control. With eyes of faith, I am encouraged to trust in that simple fact. He IS in control. Always. Totally. He that keepeth Israel shall never slumber nor sleep! The Lord is my helper!