2006-07-20 08:12:46 · 11 answers · asked by liezel_carver 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
FOOTPRINTS IN THE SAND One night a man had a dream. He dreamed he was walking along the beach with the Lord. Across the sky flashed scenes from his life. For each scene, he noticed two sets of footprints in the sand. One belonged to him, and the other to the Lord. When the last scene of his life flashed before him, he looked back at the footprints in the sand. He noticed that many times along the path of his life, there was only one set of footprints. He also noticed that it happened at the very lowest and saddest times in his life. This really bothered him and he questioned the Lord about it. "Lord, you said that once I decided to follow you, you'd walk with me all the way. But I have noticed that during the most troublesome times in my life, there is only one set of footprints. I don't understand why when I needed you the most you would leave me." The Lord replied, "My precious, precious child, I love you and would never leave you. During your times of trial and suffering, when you see only one set of footprints, it was then I carried you."
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2006-07-20 08:18:09 · answer #1 · answered by Alma 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The footprints in the sand is a beautiful way to show God's love and care for us. This is not specifically from the Bible and someone wrote this BUT there are numerous Psalms about God's loving care and how He watches over us and keeps us in His care so although it is not directly from the Bible in the form it is in...it is absolutely theologically accurate in its message, not to mention the beautiful art scene of the beach with the footprints, all pointing to God's perfect creation in the sand and beaches and ocean.
2006-07-20 15:20:00 · answer #2 · answered by Mamma mia 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's in this poem below:
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A Psalm of Life
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1807-1882, written in 1838
Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream! —
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.
Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each to-morrow
Find us farther than to-day.
Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.
In the world's broad field of battle,
In the bivouac of Life,
Be not like dumb, driven cattle!
Be a hero in the strife!
Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act, — act in the living Present!
Heart within, and God o'erhead!
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time;
Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o'er life's solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.
Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.
2006-07-20 15:23:10 · answer #3 · answered by Joja 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Footprints in the sand" is a lovely poem. Have a copy hanging at home. Itis not a Bible quote. Just a famous poem. So I can't give you the chapter and verse. Sorry...
2006-07-20 15:17:22 · answer #4 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
check a Bible concordance under footprints or sand. the poem of that name was made up /inspired by several verses
2006-07-20 15:17:54 · answer #5 · answered by K9 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not a psalm. It's a poem written by some lady.
2006-07-20 15:15:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No direct passage, just an inspiring story gifted to us from another source.
2006-07-20 15:15:49 · answer #7 · answered by Bobby E 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I read something the other day that it's about someone carrying jesus on the beach because he was too drunk to walk.
2006-07-20 15:16:13 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, it's not in the Bible. it's a popular poem written in the last half century i believe.
2006-07-20 15:16:23 · answer #9 · answered by KDdid 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's crap. I take credit for what I do, I don't assign credit to mythical creatures.
2006-07-20 15:20:41 · answer #10 · answered by ratboy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋