This has got to be the best Digging Deep story of 2026! It’s actually not just a Digging Deep story, but it’s a great and praiseworthy example of the providence of our God of More!
First let me show you the hyssop soap made by the group in DeSoto, Missouri. Samantha Carlson put this group together. (Her whole life and marriage to Adam is a manifestation of the love of the same great Provider!) Samantha sent me these sweet pictures of the final hyssop product and she mentioned that the sister who had done the lettering and labeling was just baptized in January.
When I asked Samantha if I could share that good news with you, she gave me a little more of the back story and I could not love it more!
Victoria and Tim were on their way to worship. They were ready to “get into a church” and get involved. They ended up getting turned around, directionally, and ended up at the church building, where my sweet sister, Samantha, and her husband, Adam worship. (And they really DID get turned around in the greatest way!) They decided just to go on in and worship there, instead, since they were running behind. They later told Samantha that they were looking for a place that just taught the Bible. Victoria also said that they were ready to be involved and active somewhere. Victoria quickly began attending that local Digging Deep group and continued studying, along with her husband, with Adam and Samantha. When people knock, the door is opened (Matthew 7:7). Victoria, the soap “labeler” for month 6 of The God of More was baptized into Christ in January. She and her husband never made it to their intended destination that Sunday morning. But they will, with His help, make it to the eternal one for which they were searching. Jehovah is the God of More.
We made little bottles and bars of hyssop soap, while God was taking care of the real hyssop cleansing. So profoundly thankful for the purging with hyssop in all our lives!
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean:
wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
Make me to hear joy and gladness;
that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
Hide thy face from my sins,
and blot out all mine iniquities.
Create in me a clean heart, O God;
and renew a right spirit within me.
Psalm 51