Many years ago, my husband and I were visiting his family in California. I went into the garage to bring in another gallon container of water to finish filling the dinner glasses. I poured some from the new container into my sister-in-law’s glass, not realizing that there was also a gallon container of acid in the garage, and that unknowingly I’d picked up the wrong container of clear liquid.
As we sat down to eat, my sister-in-law took a drink and immediately spit it back into the glass and called out, “Acid!”
As she rushed into the kitchen and rinsed out her mouth, we all immediately began to pray, vigorously. We affirmed her innocence and safety as a beloved, spiritual child of God. This Bible promise came to thought: “If they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them” (Mark 16:18).
