Not Forsaken
I stumbled out onto the beach to see that half of those gathered there had already been loaded up onto the boats steered by the Whale People that had come in close to shore. We were going to get away with this!
'Hallelujah!' Was my prevailing thought. These people, who had been born into bondage, so deserved a chance to experience freedom.
I pushed Mandy away towards the surf, "Go get on a boat! Get out of here before something goes wrong."
Screams rang out all along the beach where people were yet to be loaded aboard. The people in their fear backed away from the beach into the crashing of the waves, as those on the boats worked double time to bring them aboard.
I turned around to face what I knew I would find. Some thirty or more giants came walking out from the forest's edge onto the beach. So much for the escape being a rousing success.
At least some would escape, but would those surviving giants not just use their technology to build crafts of some kind by which to hunt the Whale People down to wherever they fled to? It was the most likely scenario that would occur.
Despair loomed inside of me at the knowledge that we really hadn't won or achieved anything of noteworthy value this day, until all these giants were dead and no longer a threat to anyone. But how to do it?
It was beyond any capability of ours to overcome such demonic aberrations personified in the flesh. It would have to be a God thing, if we were to survive.
"Oh God please help us! You brought me here and You've helped me deliver these people to this point and even find happiness for myself again where there was none before. Please hear my prayer and finish what You started and have helped out all along the way. I commit myself and the future of these people that you've tasked me to lead into your safekeeping, as I step out in faith."
I limped out across the sand towards the approaching giants.
"Oh God do not forsake me now!" I whispered out.
"I never have and I never will." Came a deep response into my innermost being that brought peace and the courage to potentially walk straight into my death, if it was what God had willed to be.
Something buzzed by my ear and I looked to the sound to see a hornet hovering in the air beside me. I smiled, as I remembered the stories of Israel and their conquest of the Holy Land, a land filled with giants, recorded down in the Bible so long ago for all to read. God was the same yesterday, today, and forever more.