«My God will fully satisfy every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus» (Philippians 4: 19, NRSV).
EVERY TUESDAY MORNING, Pastor Larry Yeagley told a story to the children of the church school. One day, as he was leaving after finishing the story, he met Christina, a first-grader who was crying because she was late for school.
«I missed the story! I missed the story!» she said.
«Don’t cry, Christina,» the pastor said affectionately. «I’ll talk to the teacher and ask her to let me tell you the story early tomorrow. »
The next morning, there was Cristina, waiting. Then, with great love, Pastor Yeagley told her the same story from the previous day. At the end, as the pastor headed toward his car, the girls little voice stopped him.
«Pastor, wait! Please wait!» the little girl shouted as she ran to the pastor.
When she caught up with him, she placed a twenty-five-cent coin in the pastor’s hands.
«Pastor, I want you to keep this for yourself,» she said.
Pastor Yeagley says that, for a moment, he considered not accepting the coin. That was her lunch money and probably everything she had, but the gift was also the expression of her grateful heart. In the end, he accepted it and immediately went to the cafeteria to pay for Christina’s lunch. «I still have those twenty-five cents,» Yeagley wrote, «as a reminder of my self-sacrificing and grateful little friend.»
Those few cents also remind us that no matter how small and insignificant our efforts to please our heavenly Father may seem, He accepts them as the best we can do and willfully satisfy every need; that means everything, even what may be missing, as stated by today’s text and the following quote:
«When it is in the heart to obey God, when efforts are put forth to this end, Jesus accepts this disposition and effort as man’s best service, and He makes up for the deficiency with His own divine merit.»—Selected Messages, book l , ch. 60, p. 382.
Thank You, Jesus, because You accept my ‘twenty-five cents» worth of effort to please and obey You. Above all, thank You for making up for my shortcomings with Your own holy merits.
I can only say that You are a wonderful Savior.
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Taken from: Devotional Readings for Adults 2022
“GREAT IS OUR GOD!”
From: FERNANDO ZABALA
Colaboradores: Xiomara Perdomo & Angelica Cuate
