God is faithful to look after the smallest detail and
our every need. He always takes cares of His part…the disconnect comes when we
do not follow through on ours. What’s God to do when He opens doors of
opportunity and we do not walk through them?
Case in point – last night before going to bed, I set up
my crock-pot overnight system to cook steel-cut oats. If you’ve not tried them,
I highly recommend them. I love oatmeal and the steel-cut oats are just what
they are called…the oak berry cut with a steel blade. Oatmeal we buy in the
grocery store has been through a lot of processing, including pre-cooking,
rolling, flattening….all kinds of things. Steel-cut oaks are the basic oat
berry, chopped up with steel blades…period. They have a different texture and
all the nutritional goodness God intended oaks to have. We love them and looked
forward to having a warm pot waiting for us when we got up this morning.
After I had been asleep about 15-20 minutes, I sat
straight up from a dead sleep with the panicked thought, “I didn’t turn the
crock-pot on!” I jumped out of bed and padded barefooted across the cold floor
to the kitchen and felt the side of the crock-pot to find, yes indeed, it was
cold. I turned the knob to high and padded back to bed thanking the Lord for
waking me so we would have a delightful, hot bowl of oats to ward off the cold morning.
I was still expressing my gratitude when I fell asleep again, I guess, because
that is the last thought I remember.
This morning I woke to the aroma of fresh coffee, thanks
to the automatic timer thingie on the coffee pot. Pulling on my robe, I noticed
I did not smell the oats…hmmm. I’m awake now. In the kitchen I poured my coffee
and went to stir the oats. All is not well. The crock-pot is cold, the oats are
not steamy and creamy…my heart sinks. Whatever is the problem? In the light,
which I did not turn on in the night, I noticed the crock-pot was unplugged.
Aauugghh……
The Lord woke me up from a dead sleep to make sure I
had not only my heart’s desire, but the healthy goodness of His provision.
It was my lack of follow through, by not turning on the light to make sure I had done everything I needed to
do, to insure I could benefit from it. God is always faithful to complete
what He starts…we are the disconnect when we are not so diligent. Makes me shudder to think of all I probably missed out on because I didn't follow through a door God opened! Thanks for the opportunity, Lord. You opened the door.
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