THE LIVING TRUTH

Today's promise: God honors truth

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 is."

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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