The Lord Will Take Care Of You

So my thought for today...my moment of praise for His mercy and goodness to all, even those who do not care for His words... His truth.

Philippians 4:19 But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

I spoke with a friend this evening with whom I have been trying to help clean out a house she needs to sell. An accumulation of many years of all things which "I just have to keep because I might need that someday" was overflowing and abundant. The "stuff" in this house was unbelievable...

Anyway...I spoke with her on the phone and she mentioned that her brakes went out on her truck on the way home. I offered to try to fix them as best I could, enough to at least get the truck to a garage. I do not think she will need us for that.

In her thankfulness though, she spoke of her gratitude for the help we have been to her since we met. She said that she just doesn't know how she could have gotten thus far without us.

I spoke just a few words which simply and surely gave God the glory, though my flesh and my pride would have liked to grab tightly onto that moment and steal the glory from God and keep it all to myself.

I just said, "Well, if we hadn't been there for you the Lord surely would have supplied for you. He may even have supplied better. I'm just thankful that He let me help."

It's truly a wonderful thing to hear the gratitude of folks when you do something nice for them. Perhaps even more wonderful is the encouragement gained from knowing that if only for a moment the Lord has put me to work for Him. Knowing that being not weary in well-doing (Galatians 6:9) has its rewards in encouragement and thankfulness.

But as I later pondered the exchange that took place on the telephone I realized that I have often been down-hearted because I have failed to see God's hand guiding me moment by moment so that I might have an opportunity to serve others and glorify Him in so doing...

Yes, even my need to be thankful, to be not down-hearted, but joyful...even that need has been met before I ever could have realized it was fulfilled.

My God is good. Thank you, Jesus.