The Bible is actually a book, a whole book about the Providence of God.

From Genesis 3.15 onwards, it tells the story of how God works to provide salvation for

His people in Jesus Christ.

And with a view to that, He governs everything so that this will happen.

I think I've probably had a sensiveness since I was a very small boy, although it was

some time before I really began to understand the gospel itself.

A family didn't go to church, and we probably only had a few shelves of books in our home.

But one of them was my maternal grandmother's old Bible.

I remember it was bound in black leather, it was small, and it was thick, and it had really

small print.

My memory is a little hazy, but I think I'd land to read before I went to school.

My mother taught me.

And since we didn't have any central heating in the house in those days, in the winter

months, I used to get into my parents' bed once they'd got up and enjoy the warm-thayed

left behind, my own central heating system, and I would read my grandmother's Bible.

Well, to be honest, there were two stories, more or less I read all the time.

One of them was the story of Daniel, which took me quite a while to find because it was

so far on in the Bible, and the other one was a bit elusive too since the hero didn't

have a Bible book named after him, but he was tucked away in the last quarter of the

book of Genesis.

Yes, it was the story of Joseph.

And sometimes when I look back, I think maybe this was one way God was preparing me to

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