My $500 Story

All of us have a story to tell of how God has proven His power, His grace and His care for us. Here is one of mine.

When we first married, Hubby didn’t know how to balance a check book. He just had never learned. I decided it was necessary to keep my mouth shut and sit on my hands while he learned. He is a very smart man, it shouldn’t take long. As indeed it didn’t. It was only a matter of less than a month, and he had completely mastered the art of managing the balancing. During that month, one of the primary things God used to teach Hubby how to do it was that the rent check bounced, and neither of us could figure out why. We finally closed that account and started fresh, and have never had the same problem since. It was all for the best.

We moved twice during the next 7 years, taking all our furniture with us. Hubby was out of work, and I was working as a full-time home school tutor. We were short on the rent again, by $500, and were discussing how God would have us pay it this time. Should we borrow money again? We prayed about the shortage, and left it for the time. The student I was tutoring at that time had difficulty sitting still. As I read to him, he squirmed constantly.

On this day, his squirming focused on sticking his hands down into the couch, and pulling out various bits of trash . . . a pencil . . . a few coins . . . a paycheck for $500 which I had failed to deposit 7 years earlier! Turns out it was my failure which caused our rent check to bounce and the accelerated learning curve that went with that. God had placed it safely in the couch for the time it would be needed. Seven years earlier, He had planned how to provide for our needs. Now when I have a need, I remember. He knows my need before I ask, and has already planned the answer.

What is your $500 story?

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