John Eldredge writes in his book Waking the Dead,
"God what do you have for my heart today?" He
continues by saying, "you may be stunned by what
he guides you into.
I began the day at six in the morning asking God,
"What do you have for my heart today Lord."
I had a few minutes to spare this morning (very
unusual) so I had a cup of coffee at Starbucks.
During that time a brainstorm came to me and I
wrote feverously for thirty minutes, jumped in the
car and decided to take a tour of the new Wal-Mart
food store in Louisville, as I headed back to
work.
When I arrived at the store it was not
raining, as I began to leave it was pouring. I
didn't buy anything so I went out the entrance.
At the same time I realized it was raining, an
elderly woman coming into the store asked me to
help with fix her umbrella, it was stuck open. I'm
thinking, not now lady my top's down in my car and
there are fish swimming in it, but calmly with a
smile I help her.
Then she wanted me to fold it for
her. I thought to myself that you've got to be kidding me.
She proceeded to thank me (as I swiftly moved away) and she said,
"by the way there is a convertible in the parking
lot with the top down. As I ran out I yelled, "that's
mine thank you."
Now, how many seventy-year old
woman notice or even care about a comfortable
sports car in the midst of fifty cars in a lot? I
get in, sit in a puddle of water, close the top
and start to drive off. As I do so, I look over
and see a plastic hair protector (I don't know
what the real name of them are. Elderly people
wear them to cover there hair up from rain)
covering my books and what I wrote at the coffee
shop.
It was then I realized what God had just
allowed to happen. The same women I just helped
had taken off her headwear and put it over my
books protecting them from the rain. "What do you
want from my heart today Lord, was just answered."
I didn't know this lady, nor did she know me or my
car. That wasn't the message. The message was we
reap what we sow. Whatever you want for your
heart, you must sow. Isn't that just like God to
answer our prayers by teaching us something?
Whatever your heart needs or desires give it
away. Give it away until your heart becomes a
reservoir of life. Is your heart a canal or is it
a reservoir? Is it overflowing or just passing
by? Try giving something precious of yours away
this week. Maybe it's time, maybe it's money,
maybe it's processions. "What do you want for my
heart Lord?" It may be then we realize there are
Angels among us all the time.
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