Hello everyone. Dorothy and I had a pretty good weekend. I went on a ride with about sixty to seventy other bikers this Saturday. It was amazing. I have something that happened today. I guess I could say a very valuable life lesson. Well, here goes.
Last week I felt that God impressed upon me to go to the grocery store and to buy groceries for a couple that are in our church. I haven’t spoken to this couple in a while, but I really felt impressed by God to do this. One day passed and I didn’t get to it. A couple more days passed and I didn’t get to it yet. A few more days passed and I still didn’t get it done. I didn’t even share this with Dorothy. That was my first mistake. I meant to. But best intentions are never good enough.
Today I told Dorothy today that I felt that we needed to help this couple. Now, it’s been a week or more since I felt God leading me to do this. Dorothy was excited about the thought of helping them too. Well, Dorothy came downstairs and said, “I have put together four grocery bags full of groceries for them.” She said, “We don’t have to go to the store.” We took the bags of groceries to this couple and when we arrived at their house, the guy was outside, walking to his car. He said, “Hey, what are you guys up to?” I told him that we had brought some things and that last week God had impressed upon me to help them, but that I was soooo sorry because I let my schedule get in the way.
What he said to me next will be forever engrained into my head. He said to me, “It’s funny that you say that Larry, because last week we didn’t have any food left and didn’t know what we were going to do.” I began to cry and said, “I am so sorry.” “I let you guys down by not acting to God’s voice immediately.”
What a blow, to realize that when we don’t obey God when God speaks to us, we let His people down. Wow. How difficult of a lesson. God is amazing and He takes care of us.
Dorothy and I left and as we were driving I couldn’t stop the tears. Of course Dorothy was struggling as well. That was a very hard lesson. I had let these people down. I told Dorothy, that a lot of times we don’t realize how blessed that we are. I said to Dorothy, “You know, we could have done better than that.” She said, “I know we could.” So we went to the grocery store and bought a bunch of different types of meat, and potatoes and bread, and milk, and vegetables and other things. We took that to them and really gave then.
Don’t forget that when you give to people, are you giving your best? God honors that. Obey God when He speaks.