Gods Daily Promise

[Cynay]

The living Truth

Jesus said…"I came to bring truth to the world. All who love the truth recognize that what I say is true."


John 18:37 NLT


A wife prays for her husband's salvation



After a rather gentle talk [one evening] about Christianity, [my wife Davy] went to bed, leaving me lying upon the sofa in front of the fire reading.…A half hour passed. I let the book fall and switched off the lamp. Gazing upon the glowing coals, I wondered with a strange mixture of hope and fear whether Christ might be in very truth my God. Suddenly I became aware that Davy was praying beside me—she had stolen into the room in her nightgown and knelt down by the sofa. I looked at the quiet figure for a few moments. I have never seen her pray. Then she spoke.

"When I was in bed," she said very softly, "it seemed to me that God was telling me to come to you. I have prayed to God to fulfill your soul."

She paused a moment, and then she whispered: "Oh, my dearest—please believe!"

Moved almost to tears, I whispered back—a broken whisper, she wrote in the Journal [the book we both kept of our searching for God and truth]—I whispered, "Oh, I do believe." I was shaken by the affirmation that swept over me.

"Hold to this moment," she murmured. "Hold to it when doubts come. This is the truth—I know it it."
Sheldon Vanauken in A Severe Mercy
Adapted from The Prayer Bible Jean E. Syswerda, general editor, Tyndale House Publishers (2003), p 1657.

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I so want such in my family.
Lord guide each of us with such wants to be Your messenger or bring a messenger onto the path of those in our families who do not know you yet.