Moment of Obedience

As I sit here to type this entry, I am totally humbled.

Today, the Hooties and I went to the grocery store to pick up a few things for New Year's Eve dinner.  While in the produce section giving the older Hooties a lesson on how to pick out veggies, this middle-aged man walks up to me and asks if the van in the parking lot that has "For Him" on the license plate belonged to me.  I told him it did, but in my mind I was thinking, "Aww, man, he must have hit me.  I really don't have time for this."  Then he proceeded to tell me that last week he saw my van and the Lord told him to bring our family a Christmas present, but he passed it off and just went on with his day.  So, here he was at the grocery store a week later and saw our van again.  He told me that the Lord again told him to go give our family a present, so today he came looking for us in the grocery store to give us a Christmas present.  This man gave us some money.  For those of you who know what is going on in our life, you will know how much of a BLESSING this is to us.  We are about to start something new.  We aren't sure which churches/people are going to financial support this vision that the Lord has given us.  But in that small moment...in that man's moment of obedience to the Lord...the Lord reminded me that we will be taken care of.

I was also reminded about what I teach the women I disciple every week...that when we HEAR the Spirit speaking, we must BELIEVE that He still speaks and then OBEY what He has put before us.  And this man did that today.  I was reminded that the Lord STILL speaks to His people...all we have to do is slow down long enough to hear Him speak.  Often times, I get caught up with being a mom of four children, and I forget to slow down.  I forget to be still.  I guess the reason this event impacted me so much is because this is how we try to live our life...listening for the Spirit, believing what He says and then obeying what we have been told.

I will admit, it was a little hard taking this man's money because I am usually the one on the giving end instead of the receiving end. So, when I called Chris to tell him what happened, I asked him if it would be OK for us to frame the money this man gave us to be reminder of what God did today in the grocery store...in that one moment of this man being obedient. So, we pray that one day we will have an office to put this reminder in.  That we won't forget what we learned in this moment.

We will be praying for this man.  That he will continue to live a life of obedience to the One he serves.  Even though I didn't get to properly thank him for what he did, I know that the Lord is well-pleased with His faithful servant.