How God Saved Us On The Amazon River

On Thursday a boat on the Amazon River, carrying 37 American tourists, crashed into a large tree trunk which was floating under water, down the river, as is common during the rainy season. The large tree trunk ripped a huge gash along the bottom of the boat, and the 37 tourists had to flee to the life boats in the minutes before the boat sank. Thankfully, everyone made it out alive, albeit somewhat shaken up.

That is exactly what happened to us on Tuesday!

If you go back and read my blog from Tuesday, March 4, the day of our Amazon River baptism, you will read a little bit about our adventures returning to the port of Iquitos after the river baptism. The Amazon was chock-full of large tree trunks, long tree limbs, and huge, car-size knots of weeds and long grass, all of which go sailing down the river during the rainy season as the water level rises approximately 50 feet.

The motor to our boat conked out when it slammed into the tree trunk floating underwater. In the muddy Amazon, you can't see a thing under the water. It's like looking into a glass of chocolate milk! But as we read about how Thursday's boat sank, we see the mighty hand of God and how He protected us from a similar fate on Tuesday afternoon. We, too, had more than 30 people on board our boat, between FRC-Lima people and the members of the Yagua tribe, and we, too, crashed into a tree trunk floating underwater.

Didn't Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet go through something like this?

In all seriousness, I believe that the enemy was trying to knock us out after our glorious and victorious Amazon River baptism, but God stepped in, got us safely to the side of the river, and kept our boat afloat until a new motor arrived. That is the power of God, and that is how He saved us on the Amazon River!