Hat #5 - Blessed
Philippians 4:19 - But my God shall supply all my needs according to his riches in glory;
All my needs? Really, Lord? According to his riches in glory? God’s riches? The same God who created everything? The same God who basically “owns” Heaven? That same God is going to supply all my needs according to His riches?
YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! A thousand times more, YES!!!!!
Recently, my bank account was closed due to circumstances beyond my control. When the bank closed the account, they issued a check to me for the balance in my account…..$1.12. Yes, a corporate-sized bank took the time, resources, and personnel required to issue and mail to me a check for ONE DOLLAR AND TWELVE CENTS, and that was literally all the money I had to my name. My three daughters and I were living in a family member’s one-room-attic-converted-bedroom space, and I had exactly $1.12 to my name. To say that I was discouraged would be understandable, but even in my despair, the Lord reminded me daily of His love for me and for my children. He provided for us through family and friends who made sure that we had food to eat and gas in our car and a roof over our heads. God’s Word cannot lie. He did, indeed, supply all my needs, but where does the “according to his riches in glory” apply? I am so very glad you asked. Let me just tell you where my girls and I are just two months later…
Two months later, my girls and I are getting settled into our new home with FOUR BEDROOMS and TWO BATHROOMS, and a rent payment that is EXACTLY within the budget that I prayed would be possible. This house is not just a rental property but also a home that meets some very specific needs of our all girl family. I mean, the details to which this house suits our family would make one think that it was built with my family in mind. Oh, wait, God is in control of every thing, and He will supply my every need. That’s right, this house was built over twenty years ago with my family’s exact needs today in mind.
MIND BLOWN!!!!
This week alone, God has answered even more, very specific needs for our family. Allow me to share just a few examples that have me literally giddy inside for all it represents to me personally. Let me be totally clear and say that due to extraneous circumstances, my girls and I are starting completely over. I mean, until this week, we were using our bag full of beach towels as our bath towels. We had leftover odds and ends paper plates as dishes. We had our clothes, and we were using some throw blankets as make shift beds, and then……
GOD SHOWED UP AND SHOWED OUT!!!!
When I tell you that we literally started over this week, I mean that in every sense of the phrase. I have had several friends, colleagues, and family members donate things to us to help us as we begin again, and you would think that under those conditions, the house would be a hodge-podge of mismatched everything, right? Of course, beggars can’t be choosers so hodge-podge is completely acceptable, but NOPE, not when my God shall supply all my needs according to his riches in glory, NOT AT ALL. When God supplies your needs, you get a shower curtain from a friend that matches the bathroom floor of a twenty plus year old house EXACTLY as if the two were planned by the same designer, but that’s not all. That shower curtain has to be hung, right? Yep, and that means that a totally different friend from a completely different part of my life shows up with a shower rod AND shower curtain hooks that match the shower curtain from the first friend and the bathroom floor of the twenty plus year old house PRECISELY as they would had an interior designer created the space. I’m not kidding. It’s the little things like that which make me stand in awe of my God this week. But that’s not all!!! In addition to a perfectly matched “hodge-podge” of a bathroom, God also provided curtains for my girls’ bedrooms that “just happen” to match the color schemes they are wanting to use to decorate when the time comes for that, and one of my daughters was given a set of sheets for her bed that also matches her color scheme choice exactly!! I am telling you that my God will supply all my needs according to his riches in glory!! God even supplies the right colors!!!!!! I know this seems so small to consider a blessing, but the exact opposite is actually true. If God cares enough to provide my daughter with sheets and curtains that match a color-scheme for a bedroom she has yet to decorate, can you even imagine how much more He cares that we have food on our table or money for us to make the rent? My God shall supply ALL MY NEEDS according to His riches in glory. God has provided material needs this week that have just blown my mind. We were GIVEN practically brand new RALPH LAUREN towels, GIVEN a barely ever used microwave, GIVEN a brand new 24 piece set of dishes still in the box (Goodbye, paper plates!!), GIVEN a Broyhill dresser with mirror and nightstand, and so very much more!! God has also supplied monetary gifts that are unbelievable to me. Am I rich? No. Do I still need to watch how I spend money? Yes. Is there nothing but sunshine and butterflies ahead? Probably not. But my God shall supply all my needs according to His riches in glory, and that, My Friends, that means I am blessed.
