Day 133 Finding Help When All Hope is Lost

In Matthew 5:13, Jesus tells his followers that they are the salt of the earth, and in the same sentence offers a warning that savorless salt is good for nothing. Join me in an attempt to be savory salt as I share each day one verse of scripture and one small thought. Perhaps this small daily emphasis can lead to greater savor in your life and ultimately you and I can be savory salt.

Hello, my friends and family, wherever you're listening from, thank you for joining me and know that I'm cheering for your every success. We continue here immediately off of yesterday's thoughts. If you did not listen to yesterday's episode 132, you want to go back and listen to that before you listen to today, 133.

Welcome. Let's continue. Let's dive straight into this second half here.

You're going to be reading Mosiah 21:9-29. We left a first thought yesterday in terms of where do you turn when you seemingly have nowhere else to go? And let's continue that thought immediately with the scripture for today.

The verse we're looking at is Mosiah 21:14. This is the Nephites dealing with the Lamanites. The Lamanites have subdued them.

They have nowhere else to go. And this is their choice. The Nephites after some trial and tribulation a lot of trial and tribulation turned to the Lord.

And we learned that the Lord was slow to hear the cries because of that trial and tribulation, but they turned to Him to seek for repentance and to seek for redemption and help. I want to share a time where, not necessarily out of transgression, I turned to the Lord because I seemingly had no other help. I had no way out.

Right on the front end of the COVID pandemic, before it had become a pandemic, before we knew anything about it. I was on a humanitarian trip with 100 humanitarians. We had just landed in Nairobi and that night we had gone to bed, very exhausted from our time of travel.

And I woke up in the morning with text messages all over my phone that at the time, President Trump was closing the borders of the United States of America. I was in Nairobi, Kenya, very far away from the United States of America. And I now had a countdown clock ticking to get me back to the United States.

I won't go into all the details of my adventures trying to get home, but I do want to share this one aspect of the story. There was a time at which I was trying to get back to Nairobi airport. It was me and somebody I didn't know driving a taxi five hours to the airport.

And we got to a strip where it was only a two lane highway and it backed up traffic. It was jammed, and we were not moving at all. And I thought to myself, I don't know if I'm going to make it to the airport to make this flight.

And so I opened up Google Maps to just try and give me an estimated idea of how much time it was going to take to get to the airport. I opened up Google Maps, I put in the airport, I checked out my destination. According to Google, it said that I would arrive at the airport two hours after my flight was supposed to take off.

It said I was still four hours away from the airport and I lost all hope. There was literally nothing I could do. I sat in a place where I knew nobody.

I was in jam-packed traffic. There was no possible way for me to move or go any other direction. I looked around and there was no traffic anywhere.

In fact, we were traveling at freeway speeds, which is quite rare in Nairobi. And I looked and I thought, where are we? I opened up Google Maps, and according to Google Maps, we were 20 minutes away from the airport.

I had only been asleep for a half an hour. When I tell this story to people, I explain to them, I literally time warped. There's no other way to explain it.

And with tears in my eyes, I texted my sister and I said, I don't know how this has happened, but I'm 20 minutes away from the airport. That's about all of that story I want to share with you. There's a lot more to that and it's a very, very emotional story for me.

But I can tell you this, when you humble yourself to the depths of your humility and you cry mightily to God, even all day long, He will deliver you out of your afflictions. That I can testify. And He will do it in ways that you don't even understand are possible, but it will come.

It will come on His time and according to your faith and humility. That's all for today, my friends. Remember that by small and simple things are great things brought to pass.

Keep it small, keep it simple, and always seek to be savory salt. I'll be here tomorrow and I hope you are too.