Sunday, June 4, 2000
Sunday, June 4, 2000
My tongue will sing of your promise, for all your commandments are right.
Years passed and Doug got married and had three sons. One day his house burned to the ground.
"We lost everything," Doug told his mother. For a week, neighbors, family, and friends tried to
help them. They supplied clothes, money, food, furniture and many prayers. Then one day
Doug's wife visited her mother-in-law. Smiling she said, "look what I found in the rubble." It
was their old Bible. The Bible was soaking wet, its leather cover shriveled and brittle, but with all
the pages intact. Nellia began to dry it off, first with a towel, then in the oven. When her son
came home that night Nellia handed him their Bible saying excitedly, "Open it up. Just let it fall
open."
The Bible opened and Doug read a verse that they had underlined many years before, "When you
pass through the waters, I will be with you; ...when you walk through fire you shall not be burned,
and the flame shall not consume you." (Isa. 43:2)
God is a promise keeper.
(Psalms 119:172
NRSV)
A lady named Nellia Garber tells about a Bible she received as a gift from her husband. She
shared the Bible with her son, Doug. "Doug and I read it together," she said. "Together we
underlined God's promises." A few years later she received another Bible and gladly gave that
first Bible to her son.
Loving God, guide me as through faith I keep my promises. Amen.
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