It was Sunday evening when Esther headed out of the house
with her torch going across the Kipushya Mission station to the evening Missionary
Fellowship In her spontaneous way she had felt lonely on her own.
Her husband was away flying in Katanga Province of the Congo and all her
children though little tots were at Missionary Boarding School at Sakeji in
North West Zambia. She prayed in her heart, “Lord I need some reassuring sign
that I am loved.” God showed her in an unexpected way.
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| Andy helps Dad building the Chicken Pen |
She suddenly decided to check the eggs in the
chicken koop where there we three laying boxes built into the back of the
moveable pen. When she opened the lid there were five eggs. She decided to get
them when she returned home from the meeting.
After the meeting she went and got a bowl and came with her
torch to collect the eggs. You always needed to carry a torch in the Congo as
there were driver ants which proceeded in their millions with all the
protection of their soldiers. Then there were black stinging soldier-ants which
paraded in lines about 8 abreast whose sting was worse than a red-hot needle.
Then there were the snakes and not very often but sometimes the big cats.
When she’d arrived at the pen she tucked her torch under her
arm, lifted the lid and scooped up the eggs. Now surprisingly, there were only
four. Around the box she went with her hand looking for the missing egg. Not
there? So she switched on the torch and had a good look in the box. Now there
was a snake in there with the egg just in its neck. It could not bite her
because of the size of the egg. Esther grabbed her hand and cried out, “Oh.....
thank-you Jesus!” She kept feeling her hand while being very appreciative of
the expression of God’s Mercy and Love to her individually.
She quickly called David Emmet next door to come and help
her. He had never killed a snake before but between them they decapitated THE
SNAKE, EGG AND ALL. Esther said they did
such a good job on it it was cut to smithereens. (little pieces).
Even snakes cannot harm you when you are walking with the
Lord.
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