Okay, are you tuning in today to find out what happened with
my experiment?
Let me pick up from where I left off on Friday. I returned
home from my walk n pray and was very, very nervous. Talking about God, the
Bible, or any faith issues for that matter can be an invitation to an
explosion. It’s interesting, at least with my husband, sometimes he can be very
angry and hostile and at other times open to discussions about God. I just don’t
always know what I’m going to get. However, remember I just spent an entire
hour praying for him, over him and about him. So I KNOW God prepared a way for
this conversation.
So I peeked around the corner and stepped into his office.
There is a bold and brave smile on my face. I was bold because I had just spent
an hour in God’s Presence. “Good morning Sweetie.”
“Good Morning. How was your walk?”
“Glorious, it’s a beautiful fall day out there and I’m
feeling great. Hey, I’m on my way to make eggs for breakfast. Do you want some?”
It’s at this point in our typical morning conversation that
I started out of his office toward the kitchen. Then I stopped and popped my head
around the door frame pretending I’d just had this random thought occur to me
and I said, “Oh, and what about my experiment?”
“What?”
“My experiment. Did you know what book of the Bible that
verse was in?”
His reply, “It’s like John or something.”
I’m sure at this point the sheer shock of his accurate reply
was written across my face. I recovered quickly and said with a smile, “And how
did you know that?
“Well it’s got to be in the same place where John 3:16 is
at.”
Say what? Now I’m completely thrilled and intrigued and
decide to move immediately to phase II of my experiment. Phase II -get my
husband to actually speak powerful scripture verses. So I reply back to him, “What
does John 3:16 say? I’m curious if you know?”
He leans back in his chair a bit uncomfortable but in a
humoring mood. He smiles and starts waving his arms above his head in a way
where it looks like he’s trying to help himself remember and he starts saying, “For
God so loved the world that he gave his only – something only or begotten –
son. Something like that.”
I look at this man and wonder what happened to my husband. I
smile and I say, “That whoever believes in him shall not perish but have
everlasting life.”
He smiles. I smile.
All is right with the world.
The experiment continues. O Lord, have your way with the
plow. In King Jesus name. Amen.
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