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6 The Christian Reader September 2007
“GOD’S TWINS”
By Aundra Bryant
Tallahassee, Florida
Every Christian believer knows that God has a Son and his
name is Emmanuel which means God with us. However, when you
think about it, only a few people realize that God has a set of twins.
Perhaps the most repeated scripture in the bible is the Twenty-Third
Psalms. In the sixth verse it says, “surely goodness and mercy shall
follow me all the days of my life and I shall dwell in the house of the
Lord forever”. When David wrote this psalm, he had many encounters
with death and this was his testimony to the world of what God can do
if you put him first. There are three things I would like to mention
about God’s twins.
Firstly, like human twins, when goodness feels a pain, mercy
feels a pain also. I remember watching 60 Minutes one night and this
particular man had marveled the sports world by his miraculous
comeback from cancer. The news commentator asked him “who do
you give credit to?” the man responded, “my doctor.” We must
remember that whenever God works a wonder in our life, we should
give him all the honor and glory because the song says, “your grace
and mercy brought me through.”
Secondly, sometimes twins are not identical in physical
features but the genes and characteristics are there. David said that
“yea though I walk through
the valley and the shadow of
death I will fear no evil for I
know that thou are with me”.
If there is a shadow, there
must be some light around.
Jesus is the light because he
radiates God’s love in every
situation that we go through.
It is through Christ that we
are able to be directed into
the presence of God.
Finally, this psalm says
that “he annointeth my head
with oil and my cup runneth
over.” This is an indication
that when we stray and
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wander off as sheep will
often do, the Holy Ghost reminds us brings those things back to our
remembrance that the Lord has taught us. We are never so low that
God cannot reach down and pick us up. We are never too far that
God’s arms cannot reach out and bring us back in.
In conclusion, Rev. Walter Richardson, pastor of the Sweet Home
Baptist Church in Miami, Florida tells a very beautiful story about a
young woman who was walking through a dark alley one night on her
way from work. She saw a man standing in front of her but
courageously she kept walking ahead and the man stepped aside and
she went by.
Later that night on the news she saw the picture of a man that was a
suspect in several rape cases. The police authorities wanted to
interview anyone who might have seen this man in the alley at night
recently. The young lady built up enough courage to go down to the
police station and looked at the police lineup. After the woman had
identified the man as the one that she had seen in the alley on her way
from work, the deputies began to lead him back to the jail cell.
The young lady walked over to the man and said “Can I ask you just
one question? When you saw me in the alley, why did you step aside?
The man replied with a sorrowful voice “When you came walking
down the alley, my intentions was to attack you but I saw a man
walking on each side of you and I changed my mind about harming
you”. The young woman answered and said “those two men were
goodness and mercy”.
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