So here is a silly but wonderful story about God’s provision. Our family enjoys grocery shopping together, and with the help of all the fun carts for kids these days and our girls being a little older they even seem to have a good time (mostly). After Michael got off work a few weeks ago we piled everyone in the car, finalized our list and headed out on our family outing! We successfully completed our mission without much ado from our darling daughters and happily made our way to the checkout counter (WOOOHOOO!)
We had noticed the dark clouds as we came in to the store but didn’t think much of it. But, on our way to check-out God showed off His power over nature and let loose a HUGE thunderstorm. As our cashier was scanning our items we were discussing the pros and cons of hanging out in the store a little longer, just to see if the storm would pass.
Then the lights began to flicker and, long story longer, the power goes out with only 3 of our items left un-scanned! After a few moments of uncertainty and slight chaos we were shuffled to another register to start ALL over scanning our items. Then, the power goes out again rendering our new cash register inactive, too.
By this time every other customer had discovered the remaining two working cash registers on battery backup (of which we were not in line for). We were standing there wondering what to do and waiting for our cashier to help us figure it out. Our girls’ patience was beginning to wear a little thin, so we start talking to the manager asking what we should do, politely saying that our girls are getting antsy and we really need to get home. We hoped she’d let us go first in one of the check-out lines, but she realized that doing so would cause “mutiny” as she put it. After a few moments, she just looked at us and said “you can just go, I’ll make it right” What? She was telling us as quietly as possible to just take our groceries and go home, that she would take care of everything! We protested a little, but she was insistent. So we walked out of the store – dumbfounded at what had just happened. We had a FULL cart of groceries, and we were amazed at God’s provision. Hours later, we still kept looking at each other, saying “God is SO good!”
Did I mention that we had just moved to a new city, and as moves go, we were still in financial recovery from moving expenses and the wait of new paychecks to start coming in?
This was a pretty obvious display of God’s provision, so I want to encourage you to ask God to open your eyes to the big and little ways that HE provides every day! I would love to hear some stories of God’s provision in your life so PLEASE feel free to post a comment, sharing how you have seen Him work in your life!
Awesome! I love this
God has been reminding me in little and big ways over the past few months that He cares about every single detail of my life. Thanks for sharing !