Christian Reflection and Prayer

Scripture:

Jesus said…"I came to bring truth to the
world. All who love the truth recognize
that what I say is true."
John 18:37 NLT

(from God's Daily Promises)

A wife prays for her husband's salvation

After a rather gentle talk [one evening]
about Christianity, [my wife Davy] went to
bed, leaving me lying upon the sofa in
front of the fire reading.…A half hour
passed. I let the book fall and switched
off the lamp. Gazing upon the glowing coals,
I wondered with a strange mixture of hope
and fear whether Christ might be in very truth
my God. Suddenly I became aware that Davy
was praying beside me—she had stolen into
the room in her nightgown and knelt down by
the sofa. I looked at the quiet figure for a few
moments. I have never seen her pray. Then
she spoke.

"When I was in bed," she said very softly,
"it seemed to me that God was telling me to
come to you. I have prayed to God to fulfill
your soul."

She paused a moment, and then she
whispered: "Oh, my dearest—please believe!"

Moved almost to tears, I whispered back—
a broken whisper, she wrote in the Journal
[the book we both kept of our searching for
God and truth]—I whispered, "Oh, I do believe.
" I was shaken by the affirmation that swept
over me."Hold to this moment," she murmured.
"Hold to it when doubts come. This is the
truth—I know it it."

(Sheldon Vanauken in A Severe Mercy
Adapted from The Prayer Bible Jean E.
Syswerda, general editor, Tyndale House
Publishers (2003), p 1657.