A LITTLE girl who was very timid and fearful had a present of a Bible from her father on her eighth birthday. On the white leaf at the front he wrote,
It was a favorite verse of her father’s. He told his little girl that the verse had always helped him, and he thought it would help her.
“What time I am afraid!”—there were so many things to make her afraid. How terrifying was the darkness, and what fearful things dogs were, and there were men of whom she was almost afraid to think. But she recited the verse often to herself, and it gave her comfort.
When she grew up, she found that the things that frightened her in her childhood caused her no fear; but she found other things in life that were very unnerving. The text was just as good a help then it grew as she grew. That is one of the wonderful things about the Bible. A promise that suits us in childhood, suits us no less when we are old.
God is the helper in every period of life. God is always the God of comfort. Our strength for all things is in Him.
“What time I am afraid” covers all time. God never “slumbers nor sleeps.”
The Bible never changes; it is God’s Word to us. It is as good now, as when it was written, and is a comfort to us in all circumstances.
ML 10/29/1933