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...Small Miracles...
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Matthew 21:22... And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
It is phenomenal, the things we can receive from the Lord if we only take the time to ask and believe. Many times we overlook the small miracles that we are given in our daily lives, but I was recently reminded by an amazing incident at home.
A friend of my wife's owned a little necklace with a gold ball on it. My wife fell in love with it and began looking for one similar to it. She searched for quite a while before she finally found one. It had a very tiny gold chain and a hollow gold sphere which simply slid onto the chain. After all the time and searching she spent finding it, she came to value it very highly and she wore it frequently.
A little while back, while dressing for work, she brought the necklace, her favorite, to me to see if I could get a very tight knot out of the chain so that she could wear it that day. I took it into the den, sat down at my desk and began the daunting task of trying to remove the knot. After a few minutes I managed to get it removed and straighten the fragile chain. I laid it on the desk and then slid the tiny gold sphere back onto it. My wife, however, was a little behind time leaving for work, and we both forgot about the necklace, leaving it lying on the desk.
Later on that day, I went out and retrieved the mail from the box, brought it into the den and laid it on the desk where the necklace, and incidentally, the telephone was. I had to order a new tool for my business, so I also laid the order book there, on top of the necklace and made the telephone call. Then I picked up the mail and took it to the kitchen. After that, I carried the catalogue back out to my work car and proceded to a hardware store up town.
When I went to get out of the car I noticed that the little necklace was lying on the seat beside me. I had no idea how it got there, but I reasoned that it had stuck to the catalogue when I picked it up, and I realized immediately that the tiny golden sphere was missing. I searched the seat and down in the cracks right then and there, because I knew how much my wife prized the necklace, and how often she wore it, but there was no gold ball in sight.
The instant I got home I began tracing my path from the desk to the car, searching intently for the gold sphere, but to no avail. I did this repeatedly with the same result. I worried how I was going to explain to my precious wife how I had managed to unknowingly lose the ball from her favorite necklace. To make matters worse, the tiny chain had another very tight knot in it. I got a couple of straight pins and went to work untying the knot. After a few pin sticks in the fingers and about a half-hour, I finally got this knot out too, but the chain looked very bare without the little gold sphere.
I fretted about the loss until my wife got home, then I said, timidly, "Honey, you're gonna be awful mad at me when I tell you what happened." She looked at me questioningly, and I proceeded to tell her about the gold ball.
"Well," she said disappointedly, "I'm not mad, but I have to admit that it's very upsetting. I really had a time trying to find that thing".
She was so nice, and it just made me feel awful. I immediately got up and renewed my search, but this time I asked God to please help me find that little ball. It could have flipped off the chain and rolled anywhere, and I searched intently all over the den and down the driveway, but to no avail. I felt even worse when my wife told me not to worry about it. and later on that evening we prepared for bed.
I sat down on the bed and began to empty my shirt pockets so I could put the shirt in the wash. It was a western shirt with flaps over both pockets, and I lifted them one at a time, removing the contents of the pockets. From the right side I took out my mouth freshener and little pill tin. Then I lifted the left flap, took out a spare battery for my cell phone, and some folding money and laid them on top of the headboard of the bed. As I normally did, I then ran my finger down in each pocket to make sure nothing was left that might fall out in the washing machine. My finger came against a small, round object in the left pocket which I thought might be a piece of wadded chewing gum wrapper. I took hold of it and lifted it out of the pocket so I could throw it in the trash.
When I pulled the wad out and looked at it, I nearly fainted. It was the little golden sphere that had been so irretrievably lost! How did it get into that flap-covered shirt pocket?! It was absolutely impossible, but nevertheless, there it was! It was a miracle! It may have been just a small miracle, but any way you look at it, it was a miracle!
Suddenly, as in so many instances throughout our lives, we saw again the truth in God's word, as in Matthew 21:22. Remember, the Book says, "Ask, and ye shall receive..." Do you want to receive? ...Start asking.
In Jesus' Name,
AMEN
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