April 4 Petition Mission

“Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know” (Jer 33:3).

Henry Bosch, long-time editor of Our Daily Bread, recounted the story of a Christian pilot whose plane had been hit by anti-aircraft fire and was plummeting towards the ocean. “Immediately I began to pray,” he said, “but that was the last I knew until I came to in the water. I was in bad shape. My leg was gone below the knee…and I knew I’d bleed to death in a few minutes. Then something nudged me. Believe it or not, it was a piece of plywood with the plane’s first-aid kit on it.” Using the tourniquet from the kit, he was able to staunch the bleeding and in a short time was rescued. “If you don’t call that a miracle,” added the pilot, “I would like to know what it is.”

Bosch points out that the word “mighty” (Heb., batsar) in our lead verse is the word for “inaccessible.” Thankfully, things that may be inaccessible to you today are easily within your Master’s reach.