Brant and I were on the
way to a conference and spent two nights in Townsend, “the quiet side of the
Smokies.” As we had coffee on our balcony in the afternoon, looking out at the
beautiful Smoky Mountains, I thanked the Lord for Psalm 121: “I will lift up my eyes unto the hills from
whence cometh my help…my help cometh from the Lord, who made Heaven and earth.”
Wow! The very Creator of those gorgeous mountains is there to help me!
The very next morning as
we were on the same balcony reading our Bibles, the mountains were gone! The
clouds had moved in. But…were they really gone? NO! It is just like the times
when we are not sure God is there. He is! There are just clouds of sorrow,
anger, busyness, or distractions that blot Him from our view. That same Psalm
tells us He never slumbers or sleeps.
I have just had the
privilege of reading GOD AND CHURCHILL, a book written by Churchill’s great-grandson
Jonathan Sandys and Wallace Henley. The most important person in Churchill’s
life when he was growing up was his nanny, Elizabeth Everest. She was a
passionate woman of prayer, teaching young Winston Scriptures, and explaining
the world to him in Christian perspective. This helped him to grasp the horror
of Nazism.
Even later in life, he often quoted verses
from the Bible that she had taught him. Psalm 46 (“God is our refuge and
strength...”) was one of his favorites he had memorized with his nanny. Churchill said: “I did not hesitate to ask for
special protection when about to come under the fire of the enemy; nor to feel
sincerely grateful when I got home safe to tea.” J
Elizabeth Everest’s picture was by his bedside when he died in 1965, at the age
of 90 years old.
From my reminder in the
Great Smoky Mountains, hidden by fog, to the example of the
Prime Minster of England, striving to “save Christian civilization from Nazism,”
this magnificent truth is for all of us...”God cares for me, too!”
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