Stewardship

I have had a few revelations lately, I guess you could call them reminders too.

I have been working a side job that I take all the money from and put it in a box strictly for my next mission trip. Or, whatever God speaks to me to use it for. It's gotten to be quite a good amount, and I'm excited to see how the Lord uses it.

Recently I had a couple CL girls ask me to donate to a couple causes. One I agreed to without hesitation. She is raising money to go on our annual Minnesota trip w CL so I jumped on the opportunity to help get her there. The second asked me to buy cookie dough from her for cheer leading camp and expenses.

If you know me kinda well you know that I am not a fan of any sort of cheer leading program. Waste of money, excuse to be extra flirty, and really does the crowd need to be lead in cheering? Selfishly I hesitated in agreeing to give to the cause.

Now in either of these cases I knew in the back and front of my mind that I really don't have money to give. My last paychecks went to bills with $40 left over for expenses for the next two weeks. So I had to be wise in how I decide to share the money.

It surprised me to find myself prayin about it. Kinda forget sometimes who my creator is but I guess he never fails to make me remember. In his ever so gentle and humbling voice he kindly told me to take a little bit of the money I have in my box to give to the cheer program. Specifically to this girl. He said, 'you made a deal with me that the money you're putting aside will be for my work. Well guess what I'm at work everywhere and if you're generous with this, I promise what I do with what you give will surpass any expectation you could have. Even in a place you least expect'

So in hopes that this cheer camp and this girl that's going to cheer camp will experience the Lord in a new way, I gave what he put on my heart to give. And I guess I might not ever know what exactly he does with it, but I'm confident that the conviction he gave me will not return to him void.

So here I am Jesus, heart broken for numerous reasons but also more joyful than almost ever before because everyday you teach me a new song to sing to you. And you're gonna teach someone else a new song too, and you're gonna use that money to do it.

Lesson learned: he is generous to me. I am going to be generous back to him. Because he is faithful beyond what we know or have reason to think.