The Lord laid it upon my heart to clear out the school shelf. I began working on it with a right heart - I had to have the mind of Jesus to do this. I'm a Keeper. I don't mean that I am a very special individual, I mean that I like to keep things that are good.
But then the LORD began showing me how to become selective and how to become focused - not all sprayed out.
I searched the book shelf and began tossing old text books we didn't use and any material I felt was contrary to the Standard Book, that is, God's Word.
I realized that I was in need of a new encylopedia set. So I asked God if He would send me one that was no more than ten years old (the areas we study right now are not extremely dated materials), was new, would fit on my living room bookshelf, and that would be beautifully bound like my small poetry books.
The week before last, our friends S and S called us to come pick up some discarded items for them. When we arrived, they asked me if I'd be interested in any encyclopedias. (They know we home school.) Naturally, I was very excited to see the books! They took me into a back bedroom and there were stacks of beautiful, large 1996 encyclopedias. They were not brand new, but I sure was grateful.
Then they showed me the other set. The box (the very box the set came in) was opened and there inside was a beautiful, brand new set of 1998 Funk & Wagnalls Standard Encyclopedia. Ten years old. All but one book were still shrink-wrapped. The very first book had been opened, I suppose for previewing the set. The cover was a plush soft hardcover (if that makes sense); beautiful burgundy-brown. The tops of the pages are gold.My God shall supply ALL your need ... And He will withhold NO good thing. I love my God!
**But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:19
For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly. Psalm 84:11**
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