12.13.2011

Plenty of Bread, Plenty of Grace

I ran to Kmart today to pick up a few items, it's fast and although it doesn't carry a lot of items I buy, today was not a big grocery shopping excursion trip so it met my needs.
When the cashier finished my order and the receipt printed up, it also printed up coupon after coupon for free bread. 
Immediately, while they were yet printing, I recalled the verse in Psalm 37:25, I was young and now I am old, yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken, or their children begging bread.  What a wonderful truth!
When we were young, and broke, we never went hungry.  He supplied.  Did we get those things which we longed for?  No, but our needs were met. Part of that learning process was to tell the difference between want and need.  There is such a difference between the two, and  the sooner that lesson sinks in, the more content life becomes.  
After leaving the store, with that verse still on my mind, I felt as though I was covered with mercy and grace and that cover was like a down filled comforter.  It was warm,  yet my covering weighed next to nothing.  It didn't weigh me down till I wanted to throw it off, but instead made me want to wrap myself in its warmth even more.  I felt totally filled with a quiet  joy, all from a free bread coupon that brought to mind yet one more of God's unfailing promises. 
Quotes from poets and statesment are wonderful to know, writers leave words that stay with us, but NOTHING compares to hiding Gods word in your heart.  Nothing.

~It is well with my soul

5 comments:

Mari said...

:)
I love that you got those coupons, and love even more the verse that came to mind.

Saija said...

amen! isn't it cool the way a verse will come into our minds to comfort us ... and wonderful how God shows us a truth in a simple thing like a coupon ...

thanx for sharing, made me smile ...

Rebecca said...

That last paragraph says it all, Pat! I so agree. Nothing compares to having God's words in my heart!

ancient one said...

Those words we hide in our hearts come back to comfort us in all our trials. I loved this post!!

Margie said...

love that!! how fabulous!!