Seek the Holy One in His Word, He will answer

This actually happened to me several years ago, and it is only one of many times the Creator's Word came alive to me, but it has been one of the most remarkable of those times.

Since 1994 the Bible has been Real to me many times. If you Truly seek the incredibly Holy Creator with your heart, and look in His impossibly True word, He will answer.

A friend at work asked me for a Bible in Vietnamese. I ordered one from the International Bible Society (IBS.org). When I held it at lunch in my car, I wondered what verse I should give my friend from it. This was one of maybe forty times since 1994 I have felt I should expect an answer from Him, so I put my finger in without looking.

My Bible is about 2000 pages long. My finger was in a book near the end of the Hebrew original scriptures which began with an A and was four letters long, and exactly upon the following verse. Fortunately the numbers I could read. From the table of contents, that verse was ...

He who forms the mountains,
creates the wind,
and reveals his thoughts to man,
he who turns dawn to darkness,
and treads the high places of the earth—
the LORD God Almighty is his name.

Amos 4:13, NIV

I actually prefer the newer Holman Christian Standard Bible translation because I think it best preserves what is a reference to His miracle of Creation, about bringing light out of thick darkness. The HCSB attempts to preserve the original Hebrew meaning word by word, while the NIV tries to do that thought for thought.

He is here:
the One who forms the mountains,
creates the wind,
and reveals His thoughts to man,
the One who makes the dawn out of darkness
and strides on the heights of the earth.
Yahweh, the God of Hosts, is His name.

Amos 4:13, HCSB

Scriptures from www.BibleGateway.com, which has online Bibles in 50 versions and 35 languages.