Post by MoGrace2U on Mar 11, 2010 9:21:55 GMT -5
This section needs more posts, and it seems good to put this one here.
I was sitting in my office yesterday afternoon trying to get my 2009 payroll records in order for archiving. I had papers stacked everywhere and was running some reports and such when in walks this woman, Debra. Debra is an insurance agent and had been across the street visiting her client, whom I also know.
As we exchanged business cards, she turned mine over and saw the scriptures I have printed on the back. You are Christian? she asked - she was very excited at that and it sparked a great conversation as a result.
Debra is churched (I didn't ask where, she used to be Catholic - whole family saved at same time; but married another Catholic anyway) and is part of a prayer group that meets every other week. Recently she has been asking the Lord to send her where she might be able to help people - with their insurance needs. When she meets with my neighbor, she said that she has felt she ought to come over to my office and introduce herself and see if she couldn't help me.
Now I don't happen to have any unmet insurance needs at the present time. Though a few months ago, I did. So my initial thought was that this was not the purpose of the Lord in sending her to me. Ironically though, the purpose of having insurance is protection against future calamity. Does the Lord care about such insurance? Well not in that sense, though yes He certainly does.
And in the course of our conversation, the impending calamity turned out to be hers. Her younger sister had divorced her husband of 27 years about a year ago - losing everything because of it - house, car, savings, etc., yet claims to be 'happier' now. And recently Debra, married 12 yrs with an 11 yr old son, was thinking of doing the same! (What? like finding another woman's castaway will be an improvement on the one they tossed?)
We had the most uplifting conversation about the love of the Lord - and she had lots of scriptures memorized, showing she knew these things. I shared a bit of my own testimony of working with my ex-husband for 25 yrs and how the Lord changed me which improved my situation. And she was very attentive. I don't know that I changed her mind about what she had been thinking she would do, but it seemed I was able to give her a more biblical perspective about how she ought to look at her situation. She did seem a bit surprised that I study the scriptures on my own everyday...
I can't help but relate all this to my study on Isaiah 11:1-3 that morning about the 7 Spirits of God and the way the Lord works His word into our hearts to change us. This morning I was reading about how the Lord sent Phillip to the Ethopian eunuch to explain what he was reading to him. And how with the opening of his own understanding there came the unexpected discovery of great joy.
And that was the note upon which we said goodbye. Then my cousin called me on the phone and I got to share the encounter with her - who also has a difficult person that she must work with everyday. And who also, btw has a difficult time finding the time to spend in the word. Where do these ladies think wisdom to live this new life in Christ is going to come from?
I just love the Lord, because He is so good to me!
I was sitting in my office yesterday afternoon trying to get my 2009 payroll records in order for archiving. I had papers stacked everywhere and was running some reports and such when in walks this woman, Debra. Debra is an insurance agent and had been across the street visiting her client, whom I also know.
As we exchanged business cards, she turned mine over and saw the scriptures I have printed on the back. You are Christian? she asked - she was very excited at that and it sparked a great conversation as a result.
Debra is churched (I didn't ask where, she used to be Catholic - whole family saved at same time; but married another Catholic anyway) and is part of a prayer group that meets every other week. Recently she has been asking the Lord to send her where she might be able to help people - with their insurance needs. When she meets with my neighbor, she said that she has felt she ought to come over to my office and introduce herself and see if she couldn't help me.
Now I don't happen to have any unmet insurance needs at the present time. Though a few months ago, I did. So my initial thought was that this was not the purpose of the Lord in sending her to me. Ironically though, the purpose of having insurance is protection against future calamity. Does the Lord care about such insurance? Well not in that sense, though yes He certainly does.
And in the course of our conversation, the impending calamity turned out to be hers. Her younger sister had divorced her husband of 27 years about a year ago - losing everything because of it - house, car, savings, etc., yet claims to be 'happier' now. And recently Debra, married 12 yrs with an 11 yr old son, was thinking of doing the same! (What? like finding another woman's castaway will be an improvement on the one they tossed?)
We had the most uplifting conversation about the love of the Lord - and she had lots of scriptures memorized, showing she knew these things. I shared a bit of my own testimony of working with my ex-husband for 25 yrs and how the Lord changed me which improved my situation. And she was very attentive. I don't know that I changed her mind about what she had been thinking she would do, but it seemed I was able to give her a more biblical perspective about how she ought to look at her situation. She did seem a bit surprised that I study the scriptures on my own everyday...
I can't help but relate all this to my study on Isaiah 11:1-3 that morning about the 7 Spirits of God and the way the Lord works His word into our hearts to change us. This morning I was reading about how the Lord sent Phillip to the Ethopian eunuch to explain what he was reading to him. And how with the opening of his own understanding there came the unexpected discovery of great joy.
And that was the note upon which we said goodbye. Then my cousin called me on the phone and I got to share the encounter with her - who also has a difficult person that she must work with everyday. And who also, btw has a difficult time finding the time to spend in the word. Where do these ladies think wisdom to live this new life in Christ is going to come from?
I just love the Lord, because He is so good to me!
