Miracle on the Old Dusty Shelf

Cascade Mountains by Dee Kamp

 

Miracle on the Old Dusty Shelf

We had been preparing for our month long trip for some time. Off and on as a book would come to mind I would jot it down on my packing list. 

My list was growing! Oh I do love books. But one book title kept coming to my mind to add to this list, and this was so strange— I didn’t even own this book! By the third time this book title popped into my head I finally realized— it was God who was nudging me to get it and read it.

“But you have received the Holy Spirit, and he lives within you;

 so you don’t need anyone to teach you what is true.

For the Spirit teaches you everything you need to know,

 and what he teaches is true-it is not a lie.

So just as he has taught you, remain in fellowship with Christ.”

1 John 3:27 NLT

This book, which persisted in my mind, was written by Joyce Meyer called Battle Field of the Minds. 

 Before we left on the trip I checked some of the stores I shop at regularly but it was not there and I knew I didn’t have time to look any further or buy it on line. So, I figured I’d just get it when I returned home, no big deal. But no, God had other plans.

Our first destination of camping was in a very small town with no book stores. I browsed the junk and thrift shops for books, but it wasn’t there either. After more than a week we were in our new camp ground up in the Cascade Mountains. This too was a very small community with no book stores. Most R.V. parks have book exchanges for the campers but this park was so small I doubted they had one. 

 The opportunity came when I was in their laundry room and saw in the corner one tiny book case with well worn old dusty paperback books. I wandered over to the book shelf which held less than twenty books and all were just books of romance and mysteries. 

As I looked up on the top shelf I spotted a book sticking out amongst the paperbacks. I was caught by surprise that it was brand new looking, and a hard copy book. Then my jaw dropped! It was the Joyce Meyer book God had been urging me to read! I asked myself how that book could be here where there was not one other new book and not one other Christian book to found.

I laughed out loud and said, not caring who heard, “Okay Lord, I get it—I’m to read this book on this trip!” 

With joy and a new skip in my step I took the book back to the motor home and began to read and to be blessed by the teaching of her book.

It is vitally important that we line up our thoughts with God’s thoughts. If we stay in His Word, and if we listen with our heart for Him to speak, we will be surprised what we’ll hear and discover— even a miracle of a brand new book, on one and old dusty shelf.

Feeling a nudge in your spirit today?

If it’s God, it won’t go away.

If is God it’s for the good,

For you or for someone He puts in your way.

“Miracle on and Old Dusty Shelf” by Dee Kamp, Grace Every Morning Ministries© June 26, 2013