The above book is one of my many thrifting treasures. I found it for only $2.49 at Saver’s last fall and snatched it up. I couldn’t remember if I already had it, as I did buy the New Testament version last year. The years have run together and I can’t remember when I started buying the Come Follow Christ Don’t Miss This books by Emily Belle Freeman and David Butler. I was excited to find this one as it meant I didn’t have to go try to dig up the old one if I had bought it four years ago.

Anyway, each page has a specific scripture that goes with the Come Follow Christ scriptures for the week, then a little essay by Emily or David about that scripture. At the very bottom of the page it has a question. You can use these questions for discussions in your family scripture study. I like to use them as journal writing prompts for our family’s 5-minute journal writing time. When we gather for scripture study in the morning, we do the Come Follow Christ study, after we have individually silently read anywhere in the scriptures that we choose, for 5 minutes, and then write about what we read for 5 minutes. Not every day, but two or three times a week I will read a page from this book and ask the question at the bottom for journal writing time. I don’t require my children to write using this question but I always use it for myself.

Today’s question related to the scripture from 1 Nephi 6:4:

“For the fulness of mine intent is that I may persuade men to come unto the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, and be saved.”

Emily explains that the God of Abraham is a god who promises. (See the Abrahamic Covenant.) The God of Isaac is the same God, and to Isaac, He is a God who delivers, as He delivered Isaac from the knife of Abraham at the last second. (See Genesis 22.) The God of Jacob is a God who gives second chances. That’s because He gave grace to Jacob when Jacob used his trickery and deception. Jacob sought forgiveness and changed to become the mighty patriarch, Israel. (See Jacob’s stories indexed here.) Then the question at the bottom of the page is something like, “What specific kind of God is God for you?”

So this morning as I thought about this, I realized that God is many things for me. He is all those things I just mentioned. He is Jehovah, the God of the Old Testament. He is also all the names of the names of Christ from my Immanuel Wreath. Lately, though, He is specifically a God of Tender Mercies, as I blogged about last week. The tender mercies continue!

Here are two more:

1. My favorite white with polka dot shirt got slightly ruined when it got washed with some red clothes. Now it is a pale pink and black polka dot shirt, LOL. The very afternoon after I told my family about this, I found a replacement top at a thrift store for only $2.50! It’s even cuter than the original one!

2. Last week we found out that our landlord wants to sell the home we have been renting for a little over 3 years. I’m so grateful that he decided to do this after my husband got a new job, which gives us about a 30% increase in income. Ever since we moved into this home, I knew it wasn’t what we wanted to ultimately buy and settle into as the Home for the Rest of Our Lives. It’s too small to be a large family home and the basement leaks. So now as we look for a new home, we have more in our budget to work with for what will most likely be increase in rent, or a mortgage should by a miracle we are able to buy a home. The God of Tender Mercies strikes again!

I’m so grateful that this God I believe in is a God of Love, Light, Life, Perfection, Promises, Deliverance, Second Chances, Tender Mercies, and so much more! He is even Jesus Christ, and I am so grateful for His all-encompassing roles in my life.