Linking Our Impotence to God’s Omnipotence
Linking Our Impotence to God’s Omnipotence But this is only a simple thing for the Lord… 2 Kings 3:18 NLT Darlene Deibler, who was imprisoned in a Japanese prison camp during WWII, had been moved to the Kempeitai prison where she was held by herself in a small cell. Enduring bearings and interrogation, she relied heavily on the Lord. When she had been held there for some time starving, interrogated daily, and lonely, she was looking out of the one small window in her cell out to a small courtyard down below. While she watched the prisoners being allowed to walk around, she saw someone from outside the prison sneak something to one of the women. She caught a glimpse of the item before the woman hid it, and it was a bunch of bananas. The sight of those bananas stirred up such a longing for just one banana. Darlene had eaten mostly rice water since she had come to Kempeitai. Oh how she wanted a banana! She pleaded with the Lord, “Lord, just one banana.” But as she thought about it, ...