God Provides

One night I had a dream of my father, who had passed away about three years earlier. In the dream my father walked toward me and said, “Your mother is doing everything right for Stephanie (my daughter), but I want her to have some of my duds.” He reached out his hand holding a Good News Bible, which I took. When I awoke in the morning I thought , “She doesn’t have a Good News Bible, only a King James , which sheseldom reads.” She was in Junior High school at the time.

That day I went to the Christian book store and asked for a Good News Bible. The clerk showed me an expensive leather-bound book, but I thought it wasn’t what I wanted. On the way out, I noticed a rack near the door with a book cover that looked like a pair of jeans. “What’s this? I asked. “It’s a Good News Bible,” the clerk answered. “We get them for the teenagers. I think that is the last one in the store.” “I’ll take it!” I said. Stephanie received it with pleasure, and I noticed that she read it, and took it with her when she went to college.

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light on my path. (Psalm 119:105)

You are my refuge and my shield. I have put my hope in your word.(Psalm 119:114)

All Scripture is God breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. ( 2 Timothy 3:16)

For all the interpretations and translations and paraphrases and rearrangements, the Bible has survived in the Christian communities worldwide, parts of it for four thousand years, and the whole for over two thousand years. It’s full of good stories, poems, songs and narratives, but none of those could account for its meaning in the hearts and minds of believers. The Bible puts us in touch with another life, one we discover leads to the other life—eternal life, at the same time that our God moves in our every day lives. God’s character is revealed in His Book: The Lord appeared to us in the past, saying; “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.” Jeremiah 31;2-6

God’s provision for His people is displayed throughout the Scriptures. In my case, I didn’t know that my daughter had a need for the Good News Bible, but God provided for the need.

Love in Him,

Prue