Thoughts That Touch My Heart

A missionary got very ill on the mission field. Adding to her difficulties, her monthly check didn’t come. Here she was: very sick, without any money to buy food. All she could afford to eat was oatmeal. It made her sad, that in the middle of her great need, God wasn’t helping her. But within a month she fully recovered, and money arrived. Later, back in her home country, she was speaking to a group of people somewhat disparagingly about her life. She told of the hardships she had gone through with her illness and how her funds were delayed. After the meeting, a doctor came up and asked her questions about her illness, concluding: “Thank God your check didn’t come in! The only cure for what you had is: a 30-day oatmeal diet!” What’s the principle? God’s never failed us, though it may take awhile to see it.-Francis Anfuso