Good one Phil.

Vicki

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 5:07 PM
Subject: [ECHURCH-USA] Turtle


> Here is another 16 year old article but it was something God showed me at 
> a
> horribly difficult time of my life.
>
> TESTIMONY OF A TURTLE
>
>
>
>                               BY
>
>                          PHIL SCOVELL
>
>
>
>
>     I was eating lunch with my family and listening to the kids
> discuss my eleven year old daughter's newly acquired turtle
> Herman.  My eight year old son, his voice muffled as he spoke
> around a sandwich said, "Yea, Herman has a bent shell."  His
> sister immediately shot back, "Oh, right!  God made a mistake when
> he made Herman!"
>     I had been facing depression for many months following the
> folding of my first church after only eleven months.  I felt
> worthless and valueless.  I had no job, my wife was working, and I
> found it difficult to be thankful.  Although I kept telling myself
> I wasn't a failure, somehow I found it impossible to believe.
> Upon hearing my children talk about the turtle, I suddenly
> realized that God in fact makes no mistakes.  I had just read the
> day before how God created all the stars, knew their number, and
> even personally named them all (Psalm 147:4).  I had been quoting
> the words of our Lord to myself for several days concerning the
> fact that He knew the number of the hairs on our head (Matt.
> 10:29-31).  It seems trivial, I know,  but the awareness of God's
> creation perfection encouraged me.  It was time to thank God He
> had created me and that He still cared for me (I Peter 5:7).
> Paul likewise confirmed that we are created in His image and for
> His glory (I Cor. 11:7).  Furthermore, no one can accuse us any
> longer since we have confessed Him as Lord of our lives.  We have
> been reconciled in the body of His flesh through His resurrection
> and He presents us holy, unblamable, and unreproveable (Col. 1:21-
> 22).  In short, no one can lay anything to our charge since the
> Savior paid the eternal price for sin; be they recent or past;
> even sins future.  Perhaps we should listen to the testimony of
> the turtle - God makes no mistakes!"
>
>
> It Sounds Like God To Me.
> www.SafePlaceFellowship.com
>