Article September 13, 1999 Issue

CAMPING WITH GRANDPA–AND GOD

Elizabeth Pearson

During the school holidays, my son Ray went camping with his grandfather at Binna Burra Mountains in Lamington National Park, 120 kilometers (80 miles) south of Brisbane in Australia. They were camping in a two-man tent in remote mountainous bushland.

At nine o'clock on the first night, my son called me from the tent on the mobile telephone to ask me to pray for him. He told me that his throat was sore and he didn't feel well. The first thing that I said to him was what came to my own thought as I prayed: "You are perfect." I asked him to say it. After a brief pause he said, "I'm perfect." Then I said, "Now can you say it with a bit more confidence? I'm perfect!" I felt it was important for him to voice aloud this spiritual truth about himself, to be as firm as he could be, to stand up for what is true. He repeated the statement again, but this time I heard confidence and assurance in his voice.

Then I explained why he is perfect. I reminded him that the Bible says that God made man in His own image and likeness, and so we are, in truth, as perfect as God is.

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