{"id":5494,"date":"2021-07-07T11:55:26","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T17:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theclarion.org\/?p=5494"},"modified":"2021-07-07T11:55:26","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T17:55:26","slug":"thoughts-from-the-bible-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/?p=5494","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts from The Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>God Can Put the Letters Together<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>by Terry Broome<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A little shepherd boy was watching his sheep one Sunday morning. As he heard the bells ringing for the people to come to the church, he watched them and began to think that he too would like to communicate with God. \u201cBut what can I say?\u201d he thought. He had never learned a prayer. On bended knee, he began to recite the alphabet \u2014 \u201cA&#8230;. B&#8230;&#8230; C&#8230;&#8230; D,\u201d and so on until he reached Z, and then repeated his \u201cprayer\u201d several times.<!--more--><br \/>\nA man passing by heard the boy\u2019s voice, and stopping to look through the bushes, saw the child kneeling with folded hands and closed eyes, saying, \u201cJ&#8230;. K&#8230;. L&#8230;. M&#8230;..\u201d He interrupted the boy by asking, \u201cWhat are you doing, my little friend?\u201d The boy replied, \u201cI was praying, Sir.\u201d Surprised, the man said, \u201cBut why are you reciting the alphabet?\u201d<br \/>\nThe boy explained, \u201cI don\u2019t know any prayers, Sir. But I want God to take care of me and help me to care for the sheep. So, I thought if I said all I knew, He could put the letters together and spell all that I want to say and should say.\u201d The man smiled and said, \u201cBless your heart, You\u2019re right, God will!\u201d Then he went on to church, knowing he had already heard the finest sermon he could possibly hear that day.<\/p>\n<p>Remember that Jesus told us to have faith like a child. When we go to God in prayer, we mustn\u2019t worry whether we know the right things to say. God can put the thoughts and feelings together and send the answer that we need \u2013 even when we don\u2019t know what we need. Friends, the Bible assures us that even though we don\u2019t understand it, God is mindful of us. David said in Psalms 8, verses 4 and 5: \u201cWhat is man that thou are mindful of him\u201d and yet he concludes that God is mindful and has \u201ccrowned him with glory and honour.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I may not know what to say to God. I may not have my problems figured out. I may not know what I need to be asking God for, but thank the Lord that he knows the alphabet of my scrambled thoughts and hurts, and thank the Lord he can put the words together and answer my needs. I know down deep in my heart that in times like these, we have an anchor of hope for our prayers: \u201cWhich hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;\u201d (Hebrews 6:19). Remember this great Christian hymn:<\/p>\n<p>In times like these, you need an anchor.<br \/>\nIn times like these you need a savior.<br \/>\nBe very sure &#8230; Be very sure &#8230; <br \/>\nYour anchor holds, and grips the solid rock.<br \/>\nThis rock is Jesus, yes He\u2019s the one,<br \/>\nThis rock is Jesus, the only one.<br \/>\nBe very sure &#8230; Be very sure&#8230;.<br \/>\nYour anchor holds, and grips the solid rock.<br \/>\nThe author can be reached for comments at 256-574-2489.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God Can Put the Letters Together by Terry Broome A little shepherd boy was watching his sheep one Sunday morning. As he heard the bells ringing for the people to come to the church, he watched them and began to think that he too would like to communicate with God. \u201cBut what can I say?\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tho"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5495,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5494\/revisions\/5495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}