Article October 23, 2000 Issue

Beans, beets, and preservation

By Pamela Brumley

What does God have to do with putting up preserves? By explaining how fruits and vegetables can be saved for the long winter, I was trying to draw, for my Sunday School class, a correlation to God's care for us.

When I asked, "What are preserves put up for?" one of the students said, "So they won't spoil." It was such an obvious answer, yet I hadn't even considered that line of reasoning. I had been thinking only about future provision to meet an unforeseen need.

That afternoon I reread a passage from Psalms: "The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul" (121:7). This seemed to support my student's insight—that God preserves His children from evil, or in other words, from decaying or spoiling.

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