A few years after my father died, I had a dream in which he approached me as I stood out of doors, and spoke to me. “Your mother is doing everything right for Stephanie” (my daughter) he said, “but I want her to have some of my duds.” Then he held out his hand, and gave me a Good News Bible. He smiled, and turned and walked away.

When I woke up in the morning , I thought, “Stephanie doesn’t own a Good News Bible,and it couldn’t hurt to get her one;” so I went to the Christian bookstore and asked for one, and was shown a lovely embossed leather covered, very expensive Bible. I felt sure that it was not what I wanted. As I turned to leave, I noticed a rack near the door that held a book covered with what looked like dungarees. I asked, “What is that?” “Oh”said the clerk, “That is a Good News Bible it’s the only one left. We carry those for the teenagers. You’d be surprised how many foot-ball players come in to buy this Bible.” “That’s just what I want,” I answered, and bought the book. Stephanie was thirteen years old. I didn’t tell her about the dream until a long time later. She took the Bible and spent time reading it. Eventually when she went to college, she took that Bible with her.

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you, for everyone who asks receives, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.( Matthew 7:7) Jesus spoke these words to his disciples early in his ministry. When they had walked together for about three years, and Jesus knew that he would be leaving soon, he told them that he would be sending them a gift, an “advocate”who would never leave them: I will ask the Father, and He will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever—the Spirit of truth. . .you know him, for he lives in you, and will be with you.” (John 14:16&17)

Even before Jesus’ gift to his disciples, the Spirit of truth lived in David, Jesus’ ancestor:

The statutes of the Lord are trustworthy, making wise the simple. The precepts of the Lord are right. . . the fear of the Lord is pure, enduring forever. The decrees of the Lord are firm, and all of them are righteous. They are more precious than gold, than much fine gold; they are sweeter than honey, than honey from the honeycomb.(Psalm 19:8-10) The Spirit of truth that David knew, and that Jesus gave to his disciples, and so to all believers, can live in human beings, and be found in the pages of the Bible that is in all our homes. He never fails.

Love in Him,

Prue