The Perfect Cover

I have a great app on my phone where I get a daily Bible verse, and then I can do cool things with the verse. I can put the verse over an image and there are zillions to choose from. Each day, I send an appropriate verse to my growing list of mothers I have counseled that chose life at the abortion mill. I often get responses from them like, "How did you know I was struggling with that? This verse came at the perfect time."

I of course don't know what they are struggling with. But the Holy Spirit does, and He sends us just what we need when we need it. Anyway, every so often, I add an image to the verse, like I did with the one in this blog. More often than not, the verse just happens to be exactly what I needed to read at just that time.

In between playing with my Bible app, I cleaned out my linen closet hoping to find all the linens I will need for my daughter as she goes off to college next semester. I'd gotten a letter from the college with a "Limited Time Offer!" of the full necessary linens for the full four years of college for only $400. uh. No thanks. Thus, the linen closet cleaning. Well, I must have not cleaned the linen closet in the seven years since I sent my last kid to college because I'd forgotten how many sets of twin sheets I had! And extra towels! And extra pillows! And matching comforters! I had nearly everything the $400 set had and all FREE.

So I found a large storage bin, and loaded all the nice clean and complete linen sets in the bin. It will be all ready for August, when Asherel moves to her new college dorm. Then when I went to close the bin, I discovered that the top was the WRONG top.

I was discouraged. What now? See, God never does that. He always provides the RIGHT thing at the right time. I went on a bin cover hunt, and finally tracked down a cover that looked like the right one. Breathlessly, I brought it to my bin. It fit...perfectly.

And I realized another spiritual truth. Sometimes, God makes us work a little bit to find just the right thing that He has provided. It is easy to give up in discouragement and failure when things don't seem to be going as you hoped, when life isn't fitting your dreams and expectations. Keep looking and seeking God. He is there with the perfect cover: "He will cover you...and under His wings you will find refuge."

I snapped the perfect cover on my full set of college linens, and breathed a little prayer of thanks.

Psalm 91:1-16 

He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence. He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler. You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day, ...