OK, something is REALLY happening here.On March 29th, God had me "randomly" encounter the same Biblical verse TWICE, one right immediately following the other, while my fingers grabbed random pages of the Bible.
On April 29th, He gave me the SAME Biblical message by having me randomly encounter the same verse again.
And right now, shortly after midnight on the eve of May 29th, He has given me verbatim the EXACT SAME MESSAGE AGAIN, this time by literally MOVING the pages of my Bible to do so.
I was listening to the Rosary on CD, sitting before a statue of Our Blessed Mother, St. Therese, and of Blessed Margaret of Castello. On my lap was the Bible, and in my hands was a wooden Rosary, and I decided to open the book to a random page and read.
I had opened to perhaps an unsavory few verses, these being about the evils of rape and drunkenness. But still, I read them anyhow, taking them as a cautionary warning to always be mindful of my safety and dignity as a woman, especially as this weekend approaches where I am about to turn 30.
I paused to look away and say a prayer, and when my eyes returned to the Bible, I noticed that the pages had slid down partially and were now revealing at least half of a page from the Book of Isaiah. I decided to let it open the rest of the way.What appeared before me again was the verse I have come to love as my own:
This shall be a sign for you:
This year you shall eat the aftergrowth
Next year, what grows of itself;
But in the third year, sow and reap,
Plant vineyards and eat their fruit!
This is now the FOURTH unexpected encounter I have had with this verse since that fateful first day on March 29th where I encountered it twice. It is the third consecutive month where my merciful Jesus has given me this very special message as a gift on or near the 29th of the month. He astounds me like no other! This verse resonates deep within me, especially because in just 25 days I enter my third and final year of my Marian promise.
I suppose it's possible that tonight's random encounter could have happened because the pages are getting used to being opened there. But I highly doubt it.
I doubt it because, remember, my third encounter with the verse was in a completely different Bible that wasn't even my own. And, upon close inspection, the pages of my Bible are not at all showing any sign of wanting to naturally open to either of the two pages that contain this verse.
I do not mean to test my Jesus, but I flipped to 2 more random pages to see if any of the messages on those pages were consistent with the other messages He has been giving me recently. And, as it turned out, the two random pages I encountered only echoed what he had told me last night.
The first was a message again about having freedom from the sins of the flesh (amazingly, the same topic that I encountered last night, although this was a different verse), and then the second random encounter was a repeat of what appeared last night also. Only this repeat was precisely the same verse from Deuteronomy Chapter 22 on the importance of caring for a neighbor's animal, which is just what I have been asked to do with my neighbor's cat.
All of this is so amazingly beautiful. These experiences are making the Bible utterly irresistible to me. At times like these, it is easy to have faith, but it is not always so. God is being merciful with me right now, and I am sure it is because He sees how very weak I am. God is truly speaking to me, and I want to listen more for the sound of His beautiful voice!I took a picture of my Bible when I encountered that special verse tonight. You'll notice that the verse was already highlighted in blue from when I first discovered it in March. Isn't it neat how my Rosary is almost in the shape of a heart? That was not at all intentional on my part! But then I remember that what I perceive as randomness is only the providence of God.
