Just Receive the Gift

October 30

Our next-door neighbors are moving today. We are sad to see them go; they have been excellent neighbors. William loved my son's dog Kiki. So Kiki could run back and forth between our yard and their yard. Sometimes William would step out his basement door and call Kiki over so that he could pet her and love her. As I was thinking about this new transition today, as much as I will miss Evelyn and William, God has blessed us in this. My husband has his real estate license, and Evelyn and William decided to trust him with the sale of their home. The commission will notably help with the cost of remodeling our kitchen.

There have been many extra expenses because I haven't been able to do any of the jobs I had planned to do. My injured hand prevented me from so much of what I was planning to do. I was sitting in the car, just thanking God for His provision. Then I started to think, I don't know when I will again be able to do anything for God. I just wanted to do something, some kind of service, to show him how grateful I am. But as I wander down that mental path of trying to repay God for his gift to me. I felt a check in my Spirit. I felt the Holy Spirit say; you're doing it again. Just receive the gift. No strings attached.

I don't know what we would have done without that commission check. All I know is that God has been with us every step of the way. Provided so many things, and in so many different ways. I'm just so grateful. I'm so humbled. He is not blessing me because I deserve it. He's not blessing me because of the things I've done or not done. He's merely blessing me because I'm His daughter. I am a daughter of the king. That is a humbling truth.