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One gloomy Monday I was checking out at Walmart. I was a bit nervous and fidgety as I watched the register calculate at checked out, it was clear to me that I went way over my allotted budget. I paid for items fighting anxiety as I shuffled my basket ou...
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One gloomy Monday I was checking out at Walmart. I was a bit nervous and fidgety as I watched the register calculate at checked out, it was clear to me that I went way over my allotted budget. I paid for items fighting anxiety as I shuffled my basket out the door to load the car.
The sound of hunger in the form of a stomach growl took my mind off overspending for a moment. Suddenly a thought crossed my mind. “Mmm Starbucks white chocolate mocha and bacon egg bite sounds yummy.” Followed by a sharp fast-flying thought. “ you overspent! You have eggs and coffee at home!” As I was agreeing with that thought. The voice of The Holy Spirit cut me off quickly! “That’s poverty mentality!! You go to Starbucks now!” I questionably responded, “Lord are you sure?” I barely said that when a stern “Go Now!” put a new meaning to “Yes sir” as Fear and reverence for my Heavenly Father flooded me as I became to know it was important that I get to Starbucks pronto. Egg bites were waiting and the spirit of poverty was being ejected from my car!
I was easing over into the turn lane at the traffic light that leads into the Starbucks parking lot. Out of nowhere, an SUV whipped over right in front of me. I had an opportunity to become upset and cynical. I could have thought “jerks. Gotta get their coffee first. “ I noticed that I didn’t take notice of the suffered wrong. It didn’t affect me negatively in any way. I did not fret or become irritable. I didn’t have to try to stay in peace. I just was in total peace. And I noticed it!
I ordered my delicious morsels of Joy, never fretting over spending the extra $10 after going way over budget at Walmart. I was following peace.
I got to the window with my $10 bill and proceeded to pay when the woman says “that will be nothing, your order was taken care of by the person in front of you.” Yes, I cried. I sobbed and sobbed some more, I began praising and thanking God and praying blessings for those people.
I was so caught up in giving God glory that I drove off and then thought “LORD, I should have paid for the people behind me!” as condemnation began to still my joy. Immediately I heard “I never told you to do that.”
Being pulled back into peace, I remembered that Jesus never did or said anything that He did not see or hear His Father do.
I learned a fun lesson that day.
...wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy
James 3:17
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February 6, 2021
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