The God of Daniel was great and strong
Stopping the lions’ mouths, and filling his heart with song.
Rising before daybreak we sent up a thanks-giving to our Heavenly Father for His safe-keeping through the night, and asked Him to protect us that day. Then we loaded our beds and other belongings upon the mules and went on our way.
That day’s journey brought us over a part of the country which was covered with great rocks and boulders thrown from Nicaragua’s largest volcano, El Momotombo. In the distance we could see the volcano belching forth smoke, and the heat was intense. About one hundred years ago this volcano completely destroyed the city of Leon, leaving a great lake filled with water, which is there today.
The dust was very deep in the roads, because of the extensive traveling. It rolled up about us in a great cloud. Many times we could not see each other a few feet away. We resembled a miniature whirlwind coming down the road, and surely we were a whirlwind coming against the devil. The enemy would fain stir up a storm to strangle God’s people and prevent them from invading the territory he has so long held, but we would not be intimidated. Souls were at stake. They were being held in prison, behind bars of iron, but their cries had reached Heaven and God had sent some of His messengers with the glad news of freedom. The message must be delivered, regardless of the cost, so over mountain and plain we went, covered with dust, faint from much traveling through long, hot days, but on to the people with the message that Jesus died to set them free.
“Will we ever think of trials, will we ever think of pain,
Or the crosses we’ve endured for Jesus’ sake,
On that Hallelujah morning as we gather round the throne,
And with Jesus of the marriage feast partake?
Let us hasten with the message which He said was meant for all.