A CHRISTIAN LADY often went to visit patients in a hospital, giving out gospel tracts and talking to them about the Lord Jesus. One day when she was ready to go home, she discovered that her purse was gone. It must have been stolen by a pickpocket. But the hospital was seral miles from where she lived, so she could not walk home, and she knew no one in the neighborhood.
In her predicament, she walked slowly toward the city park, praying as she went along, and telling her Father of her difficulty. Arriving at the park, she sat down on one the seats, wondering how the Lord would come to her help. She knew He would not fail her, and so she was at peace. In a seemingly idle way she wrote on the gravel with her umbrella the words, “God is Love.” As she got to the last letter of the word “love,” she turned up a quarter, black and dirty from lying there in the gravel so long.
She thanked God for sending her just the money she needed to get home on the bus. As she entered the bus, the driver remarked that the coin was a very black one, but she told him it had been sent to her in answer to prayer by her loving God and Father. She was not ashamed to tell him in front of the other passengers how God had provided for her need. It was the same God who had said to Elijah long before, “I have commanded the ravens to feed thee.” He had told Peter that he would find a coin in the fish’s mouth, and now how simple it was for Him to direct His dear child’s step to the very place where the needed money was to be found. Nothing happens by chance in our lives, for everything the Lord sends is for a purpose. It is sent by a loving Father who promises that “all things work together for good to them that love God.” Rom. 8:2828And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. (Romans 8:28).
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