The Lord's Mercy for a Poor Scholar
As a teen I was told at Camp Cumberland in Greenfield, Missouri that Jesus' beard was plucked out. When I returned home I searched and searched to find that in the Bible. Since I had read all the New Testament, I was curious how I had missed. I concentrated my search in the Gospels. Months later when I attended another youth event at Camp Cumberland I asked the teacher who mentioned it about where I would find where the Bible said Jesus' beard had been plucked out. He told me it was not in the Gospels but only a prophecy in the book of Isaiah. I read through the book of Isaiah but missed it. I tried to look it up in a concordance. We did not have an exhaustive concordance. Still no positive result. Finally I prayed that the Lord would show me where it was. I took our large five inch think family Bible, opened it in a fashion to let if fall open in a random way. The pages where it opened showe...