By Dr. Ted Baehr
And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
– Philippians 4:19
What do you need?
On one of those international film production trips with a location in Sri Lanka, Bruce and I were using a state-of-the-art JVC high-powered camera hot off the development bench from Japan. Only a handful of these light sensitive cameras had been produced for testing. No one anywhere had a camera like this. Remote Sri Lanka was the site of ten years of intertribal warfare with burned villages and over five hundred thousand dead.
Suddenly, a chip in the experimental video camera went dead, stopping the production. Here we were in Colombo, Sri Lanka, in the midst of a civil war, with no camera. The budget of the missionary organization did not allow for waiting for a new chip to be shipped from Japan.
I prayed and asked the hotel. Several Sri Lankans told us to go to the bazaar with its little tables and tiny shops. One young man led us deeper and deeper into the bazaar. As usual, at each corner, some friendly young Sri Lankans directed us from shop to shop.
Hidden far into the bazaar, like a scene out of an exotic movie, a tiny, old, decrepit shop owner claimed to have the chip. He reached up to a little jar from the top shelf and handed the chip over, which the TV engineer inserted into the camera. It worked perfectly for the rest of the trip.
Miraculously, the documentary continued.
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