Always There

As a young British woman tended cabbages in a communal garden, her wedding ring slipped off her finger. After several days of searching, she and her husband concluded the ring would never be found and bought a replacement.

Forty-one years later, the woman’s husband noticed a neighbor with a metal detector in the same village garden and jokingly asked him to look for the lost ring. After a brief search, the ring was found in almost the exact spot where it had been dropped and returned to its owner —who slipped it right back on her finger.

The ring wasn’t really lost. It was in the garden all that time, exactly where it had been left. Many people wonder where God is during certain times.

“Where was God when I was going through that trial?” “Where was God when my child was ill?” Perhaps God knew those questions would frequently be asked when He inspired David to write these beautiful words: Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence? If I ascend into heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there. If I take the wings of the morning, And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, Even there Your hand shall lead me, And Your right hand shall hold me. If I say, “Surely the darkness shall fall on me,” Even the night shall be light about me; Indeed, the darkness shall not hide from You, But the night shines as the day; The darkness and the light are both alike to You (Psalm 139:7–12).