“An Gottes Segen ist alles gelegen,” is a saying, a proverb, I remember from Germany. It even rhymes and I translate the proverb like this: “Without the blessing of the Lord everything is nothing.”

And not long ago I found out in a special way that that is really true.

There is a Bible verse hanging on the wall in the room where I am usually working in. The framed verse is really old. If I remember correctly I saw the verse for the first time in a dwelling in Auckland. That must have also been the place where I took the picture at the top of this post. I have also been told that someone wrote this verse for someone as a birthday present. It was the twenty first birthday of someone. And that was about 80 years ago.

The framed verse has been hanging on the wall in my room for quite some time now, but it is not many days ago that the Lord really blessed me by looking at the framed verse and reading it. And what a blessing it is. I have memorized the verse and can easily find it in the Bible. Here is the verse in modern English:

“YOU WILL KEEP IN PERFECT PEACE HIM WHOSE MIND IS STEADFAST, BECAUSE HE TRUSTS IN YOU.” – Isaiah 26:3