God's Four Leaf Clover
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| Photo: Jasmin Beth |
My name is Jasmin Beth. My Poppy (Spanish for Father) helped me type this. I am nine but was only seven when this story happened.
I was sitting in church one Sabbath when our pastor was preaching the message and made an appeal for baptism. I did not want to go up front but I felt like Jesus was telling me to. I was sitting next to my sister and I told her I wanted to go up, but not by myself. She encouraged me that if the LORD was calling I needed to go. I stepped out from the church pew a little, and the Pastor had prayer.
I told my Poppy that I wanted to be baptized, so after Sabbath lunch I finished my chores and we went for a walk to discuss it. Poppy asked me questions to see if I understood what baptism meant. He asked me how are some of the different ways the LORD communicates with us. I said through the Bible and prayer. Poppy said, “Good. What other ways does He speak to you?” “How about through nature?”
Just then as we were walking, my eye saw a clover that looked a little different. I bent down and picked it and showed my Poppy, “Look, a four leaf clover!”
I had never found one before. It was as if Jesus put it there for me just for this moment to help me understand how He even speaks through nature, often just to say, “I love you.”
In home school we are reading Steps to Christ for comprehension and writing skills. While writing this testimony I remember that Ellen White wrote,
"God is love is written upon every opening bud, upon every spire of springing grass. The lovely birds making the air vocal with their happy songs, the delicately tinted flowers in their perfection perfuming the air, the lofty trees of the forest with their rich foliage of living green -- all testify to the tender, fatherly care of our God and to His desire to make His children happy." (Steps to Christ , pg. 10.1)
I underlined it in my book.
Back to my story. Suddenly we both found several more, even some five, and six leaf clovers, until I had a whole hand full of them. James 1:5 says, “If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all liberally…”
Poppy had found very few four leaf clovers in his life, so we were both excited and sensed the LORD was talking to us. We could not wait to tell the rest of the family what happened. As we shared the story with family and friends, they also went for walks with us and began to share in the same experience.
Finding the unusual clovers also reminded me of the verse, Psalms 46:10: "Be still, and know that I am God."
We pressed the clovers in books to dry them and later made them into book markers with the “Be Still’ verse. I sold these book markers at the farm market to help my Poppy finish paying off the house so that we would, Romans 13:8: "Owe no man any thing, but to love one another."
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