In God We Trust

Recently, I walked out to the street to check the mailbox as I was getting ready to leave home for work. I happened to look down on the street at something shiny. It was a quarter ($0.25). My immediate thought was to pick it up. It was out in the street. No one to claim it. But then my thought was that the local children play ball in the street and may have lost it. I decided to at least pick it up and look at the date on it or see if there was anything significant about it.  I immediately was drawn to the phrase that is printed on every single coin and dollar minted in the U.S.: "In God We Trust".  My mind begin to tell me that God had given me this quarter and I should keep it, but Something else was saying, "Just trust me." My mind said, "but you might need this money down the road.need, when I need it.  It was a great lesson to be learned. 

We often believe that when we are in need of something, God will give us the money to purchase what it is we need. Wseem to think God doesn't have good taste. But if we allow Him to choose for us, His choice is the best. 

The following day, I left earlier in the morning for church than usual and decided to pray on the long drive. As I was praying for my family, my sister called me just at the moment I was praying for her. She was on her way to an appointment where she would receive a little compensation and be able to pay for gas. As it was she only had a small amount of gas and her low fuel indicator light was on. She passed a gas station while we were talking and decided to stop, but gas was $3.69 a gallon. She only had $3.60. I told her to pray and I would pray and she would find ten cents under her seat. When she called me back later, she had found exactly ten cents under her seat. 

It reminded me of a time when I was traveling back and forth from Alabama to Indiana in 2012 and had decided to leave my job and trust the Lord. I had some money saved up to pay my bills, but I didn't want to be frivolous. I stopped in Tennessee on my way back home and filled up my tank. I went on that tank for almost two weeks before I filled up again. That was very unusual as I filled up at least once a week and sometimes twice. I knew that was supernatural provision. 

The Apostle Paul told the church in Philippi, "My God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus." Philippians 4:19. So many times, growing up I watched as my Mother would be concerned about paying bills or being able to afford groceries, but she would pray and believe God and He always came through and supplied the need right on time. Sometimes, it works out in a way that we don't even realize it was God or maybe it works out in a different way than we had hoped, but even in this, we should give thanks, because "we know all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose" Romans 8:28 We are called according to His purpose - not our own ideas or purposes.