GOD’S WORD RINGS TRUE

October 18 

Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and petition with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.  Philippians 4:6

​When my wife and I were preparing for marriage, we searched diligently for a place to live that we could afford on my $130 per week salary managing a hardware store. Needless to say, our options were scanty. One place that we looked at to rent was the bottom floor of an old farmhouse, where someone had painted all the light bulbs red, and the hardwood floor rolled up and down like waves on the ocean. 

​After several such rejections, we began to wonder if we would start out life together in my parents’ basement. We found one place that may have worked had my father not insisted on having his say about it. As we emerged from this place, we were facing the first mountain of our married life, and we weren’t even married yet. As we walked out of the front door, the church across the street began to play a welcome tune from its bell tower, “God will take care of you, through every day, o’er all the way…” It was a solid promise; our Lord soon worked out a deal where my dad bought us a nice home that we rented from him. It was a comfortable and welcome start to our life together, and it began with a melodic divine promise from a bell tower at just the right time. What else would you expect from the One Who cautions us not to worry? 

Davy L. Troxel