He Is Faithful

“What if some did not have faith? Will their lack of faith nullify God’s faithfulness?” – Romans 3:3

In June 2020, a Nashua, New Hampshire woman and her dog were rescued from a manhole after becoming trapped in the sewer.
Neighbor Roberta Ingham was lying outside, taking a break from work, when she heard the woman’s screams.
A next-door neighbor confirmed she’d heard the same thing. The two determined the screams were coming from underground and called for help.

“She was at the manhole, and the culvert is in the back of my house. So she must have been yelling down the pipe and we could hear her, but she couldn’t hear us,” Ingham said. “We called 911, and we’re trying to explain there’s a woman underground.”
Deputy Chief Kevin Kerrigan of Nashua Fire Rescue said the dog had escaped from its owner and ran into the unsecured culvert on the neighboring property. The dog’s owner had then followed it into the narrow underground pipe to rescue the animal before they became stuck about 150 feet into the pipe.
In many ways this incident sums up how our relationship to God can sometimes feel. We’re crying out to him for help, and He can hear us, but we can’t hear Him. We nust remember that God is faithful to His promises, and we can trust that He hears our cries for help.

God is faithful and we can depend on Him.

“Cast all your care on God! That anchor holds.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson

“God, who has called you into fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, is faithful.” – 1 Corinthians 1:9