In late July 2002, nine Pennsylvania miners were trapped in the Quecreek mine. They had not been heard from in two days after 50 million gallons of water flooded the mine shaft. However, when a 6-inch air pipe was lowered into the chamber, the miners tapped on the pipe, but now the tapping had stopped. Those 9 miners had a problem of huge proportions, there was no way they could solve it from within the mine.
Rescuers began drilling down to the trapped miners, 240 feet below ground, but the first diamond tipped bit broke 80 feet down. It took 18 hours before a new bit could be installed and everyone feared the miners had been lost. Yet, when the tip broke through into the underground chamber, there were the miners, all alive. In actuality, the 18 hour delay allowed water to be pumped out of the chamber the miners were ultimately rescued in. Without the delay, the shaft would only have encountered a flooded mine.
Those miners had a problem they couldn’t handle. They had a tough question, “how can I escape from this flooded mine shaft?” An appropriate verse for them to thank the Lord would be NLT Psalm 18:16 He reached down from heaven and rescued me; he drew me out of deep waters. And God can do the same for you in your problems. Each of us has problems in our lives, some not so big, others so big we’re not quite sure what to do. We want to answer the tough question “How Can I Overcome My Problems?” Now, as we’ll see, just like those miners, you’ll need some outside help to escape your problems.
To hear more about this topic, listen to my May 22, 2005 message entitled How Can I Overcome My Problems?
Thank you for your great inspirational message! Maybe you can pray for me or can send me a letter of hope, if you don’t mind. I’ve been hijacked 4 times, ones shot, couldn’t walk for 12 months,lost my business and everything! Stayed with my whole family in a small room. Started another business, did extremely well! I only have 2 brothers, in April 2010 the one was murdered, 5 days later the other one committed suicide. On the 16’th of December 2010,we were armed robbed in our house, held up for 3 hours, threatend with our lives and my wife was raped. But thanks to Gods grace, one man intervene for us and stopped them from killing us. In January 2011 my mother was in a major car accident, land up in icu. On the way to her, I written my car off. I struggled to focus and could not work, luckily I builded a database over the years and had customers which we could service (we do water purification). But just recently, 3 of my employees decided to steal my whole database, to start their own business. We are busy with a fraud case, but I might loose my business. WHY DO GOD ALLOW ALL THESE THINGS? I do love Him and I know He loves me. Thank you, God Bless. Richard