7/11/2023 0 Comments God was in that box.![]() And as Ben, Ali, Virginia, Alejandra and Barry discovered, he can be found everywhere – even in the most unexpected places. He visits us incognito. He whispers to us. There in the rubbish stood an old Singer-style sewing machine-the manual kind, mounted on a table with a foot pedal. I’m not even sure how serious her prayer was.Ī couple of days later, Ali was walking out her front door on her way to work when she saw a pile of junk by the roadside. Her request was a child-like wish to a God she was just becoming acquainted with. The first way we can put God in a box is through our misunderstandings of Him and His nature. But there’s a big difference between praying for a need and praying for an antique sewing machine, don’t you think? Ali wasn’t praying for food, safety, or even divine forgiveness. Movie, which collected a towering 40 million in its fourth frame. The Bible portrays God as a gift-giving God. It’s another weekend of box office domination for The Super Mario Bros. These questions are at the center of God in the Box, an intriguing 82-minute feature documentary receiving its world premiere at the 2011 Heartland Film. When she saw it she whispered a simple prayer: ‘God, I’d love something like that for my place.’ One day while browsing one, she came across a beautiful old Singer-style sewing machine-the manual kind, mounted on a table with a foot pedal. Ali soon became a friend, and started praying herself.Īli loved visiting antique shops. ![]() It happened to Ali, who I met when she started visiting our Friday night prayer group. But, we must always be careful to not allow our imaginations to go beyond what. In other words, God wants us to know who He is and what He has done so that we will worship Him in spirit and in TRUTH. Instead, their origin is God Himself ( 2 Tim 3:16, 2 Pet 1:20-21). I’ve told this story before too, shared it on BBC Radio 2, and include a shortened version here because it will always be one of my favourite ‘finding God in unexpected places’ stories. Those neat lines about God do not have their origin in the human imagination.
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