I have discovered that the more I read my Bible the more questions I
have and the more questions I have the more amazing answers I find. I have even
thought in the silence of my bedroom that, if I could choose my own life and
make my own plans, I would choose to sit in a cave somewhere and analyze every
word the Bible contains until I have exhausted every level of its meaning, but
then I discovered an exhaustive concordance and the urge passed to a certain
degree…
A funny moment
When I had just started reading my Bible with the advantage of revelation,
I just could not get enough Word in me so I became a little OCD and carried my
Bible everywhere, just in case I found a moment to read.
So one day I realized that I had been running around like a headless
chicken and felt so hungry around noon, after skipping breakfast, that I
decided to get myself a pizza. Whilst waiting for my pizza I sat reading my
Bible in the Take-away and just as I got to an amazingly interesting part
somewhere between Deuteronomy and Song of Solomon, the stupid pizza was done
and my running had to commence again.
As I walked out of the Take-away with my pizza in my one hand and my enormous
Bible in the other, I looked up to heaven and said to God: “Don’t You just want
to lock me in a cave until I finished reading this Book?” and as I did this I
felt God smiling at my freakish behaviour.
I got into my car and realized that I probably didn’t have enough cash
on me for the parking meter attendant. I opened my wallet and there it was… R2.75
stacked from the largest to the smallest coin one on top of the other, ready
for me to just hand it over.
I smiled and laughed out loud and I asked God if He had done this
because of my crazy “cave comment”.
It was the end of the month and my hubby had asked me to get 3 months
bank statements from FNB and I realized that the bank would be a madhouse. I
only had 6 minutes to go into the bank before I would be late picking up my
kids from school.
As I drove past the bank, there was a parking spot right in front of the
bank, in the shade. Just too amazing to resist, I ran in to see if I could (now
with only 5 minutes left), get those bank statements. The line at the
information desk was around “20 people long” with just 2 ladies on duty and I
saw a gap to run up to one of the seated consultants. She told me that she
could not help me and that the “20 people” line was my only hope.
I considered running out the bank when a little voice convinced me to
just get into the line. I stood there for no longer than 30 seconds when the
bank manager came out of his office and asked if anybody needed to have bank
statements printed… bank statements printed?
That’s not normal…usually they ask, “Who has cheques to deposit?” I was
the only one who put up my hand. The irony is that he took me to the same
consultant who told me that it could not be done and instructed her to print
them for me. I was out of there in less than 5 minutes. I felt like I was on a
joyride through town with my invisible friend helping me. So now you know why I
like joking about reading the Bible in a cave.
Since then I’ve learned to balance my love for my God my family and my
church without neglecting any one of the 3 and I just indulge in the moments
God speaks to me about His Word and when He gives me fresh manna (Word) to play
with, to learn from as well as to implement in my life.
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