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Around the World in 88 Years -E Book - Arthur Burt

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15Crumbs from aBroken LoafIt is for God’s people… for <strong>the</strong> glory of God.How gracious God is to guide us. He will answer a fleece like Hedid for Gideon. “This time, let <strong>the</strong> dew wet <strong>the</strong> fleece and <strong>the</strong>ground rema<strong>in</strong> dry; next time, let <strong>the</strong> fleece be dry while <strong>the</strong> dewwets <strong>the</strong> ground around it.” And <strong>the</strong>re’s ano<strong>the</strong>r time, Abraham’sservant prayed, “Let <strong>the</strong> next woman who comes to draw waterfrom <strong>the</strong> well draw for me and my camels, and <strong>the</strong>n I will knowshe is to be <strong>the</strong> wife of my master’s son, Isaac.”God will speak to us through many means. Most of <strong>the</strong> time, wego to <strong>the</strong> Bible for guidance, but even <strong>the</strong>re we must use caution.If a man, distressed about <strong>the</strong> course of his life, should open hisBible to Mat<strong>the</strong>w 27:5, he would read that Judas went out andhanged himself. If he should turn a few pages over to Luke 10:37,he would read <strong>the</strong> phrase, “…Go and do likewise.” He mightdraw a disastrously wrong conclusion from l<strong>in</strong>k<strong>in</strong>g those twoverses.Randomly thumb<strong>in</strong>g though <strong>the</strong> Bible for direction can be highlydangerous. There is no breath, no ano<strong>in</strong>t<strong>in</strong>g on this type of searchfor guidance. Even when we get a direct Word of guidance outof a Bible read<strong>in</strong>g, we still need to exercise caution on how we<strong>in</strong>terpret it and move on it.The Bible may be <strong>the</strong> Word of God, but is it <strong>the</strong> Word of God tome for this moment, for this circumstance? If <strong>the</strong>re is an ano<strong>in</strong>t<strong>in</strong>gon my <strong>in</strong>quiry, <strong>the</strong>n no matter what <strong>the</strong> method — Bible, fleeces,water<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> camels — <strong>the</strong> ano<strong>in</strong>t<strong>in</strong>g teaches me as <strong>the</strong> Spirit223

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