During a free time, I decided to pick up my Bible and start reading some of it. A particular verse, Romans 8:28, caught my attention.
At the start of the camp, we had each been given a copy of the book, "The Cross and the Switchblade" written by David Wilkerson, the founder of Teen Challenge. A few days into the camp, I started reading the book, and I came to a place where David Wilkerson mentioned a quotation from the Bible. It was that same scripture, Romans 8:28.
Towards the end of the camp, we were playing a game with the children. In this game, each participant had to stand on a sheet of newspaper, and then the sheet would be ripped into half and they would have to stand on a half-size sheet. The ripping-in-half continued until the children had to stand on their tip-toes on one leg. Covering more than the piece of paper with your foot or toe would mean you were out of the game.
I was sitting down, watching the game, when a little girl about 2 or 3 years old, wandered across the floor and reached down to the many bits of paper which now covered the floor, and picked up a tiny piece of newspaper. Then she walked across the floor to me in the slow, slightly clumsy way toddlers do, and offered to me the piece of paper. I smiled at her, and reached out and accepted her small gift.
I said, "Thankyou!", and as I drew my hand back, I noticed what was written on that piece of newspaper. It was "Today's Thought", and this is what it said:
"We know that in all things, God works for good with those who love Him, those whom He has called according to his purpose. - ROMANS 8:28 - (Selected by the Bible Society from the Good News Bible.)"
It was the same verse I had already come across twice before, during that camp.
Evan Duncan
31 May, 2003
