"So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God" (Genesis 45:8).

I remember seeing a motto with only two words. I had one made like it and put it in my study.

A great many visitors have asked me, "What do you mean by those to words? I cannot understand them." The two words are these, BUT GOD.

If you want a line of Bible study, just find out a half dozen places where you have the words, "But God," I will tell you what they do. They turn the scale from grief to hope, from defeat to victory, from sin to salvation.

You get one, for example in Ephesians 2:4,5: We "were by nature the children of wrath,"—there is despair, there is wrath—"BUT GOD" stepped in and saved us!

You get an instance in Psalm 73:26: "My flesh and my heart faileth, BUT GOD is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever."

And then in 1 Corinthians 10:13: "There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man; BUT GOD is faithful."

Find some more.

—Marching Orders