It's Jesus

Twenty Pesos, glorious cause

                               

The sun shines so well that day. It is late March when it happened. From school, my classmates and I rode a tricycle, since it is the usual vehicle in our little place to ride on wherever we wish to go. My friends and I decided to visit at my classmate's house, Lea, who happened that their house is located somewhere besides the mountains. Well, the actual house was built in the middle of the rice field. If you wish to go there, you will first cross lots of streams or sometimes canals that were made by the separation of soil from the water because of the rain.

 There are alternatives small bridges made by banana stem being laid down on the ground sort of the heavy rain that had fallen the other night. On the way, of course, there are ridges that you'll cross. I decided to take off my shoes because the hidden pavement is wet. Before actually passing all these mini adventures' mini rail ways, back on the tricycle, I have been feeling a bit worried because my wallet is really empty after paying the vehicle fee. I even showed to my friends that my wallet is hungry for it is just opening its mouth without anything inside. 

Then, upon going to their house, on the way, respectively, I was facing on the road. I didn't really mind it at all---the fact that I don't have any money at all with me. As I continued to walk, believe me, or believe me, there was this folded orange paper lying on the ground. I picked it up to see what is really it and surprisingly, I found it out as money! It is P20, though I cannot buy a house and lot for that, it was enough for me to go home because I could pay for my vehicle fee and the other amount left, was just so enough for me to use the whole day! 

As I picked that up from the ground, it was splattered with dots of mud, but that doesn't change my mood. I am screaming "'Thank you, God, you really know what I need! OMG". I cannot actually easily move on from that moment that brought me saying the same thing or carrying the feels upon crossing ridges by ridges. What is funnier is that my classmate, Lea, was walking before me, so by any chance, she could've spotted that money, but she didn't for it is meant to be received by my hands. Yes, this is actually so simple, but I couldn't just grasp the thought that God knows exactly what I needed even honestly, I didn't seem to ask it at first. 

Well, the lesson I got from that experience is this, sometimes we didn't seem to mind that God is a caring God after all. He sometimes attends to our needs even though we don't have any idea that we need that thing or whatever there is. The words in Proverbs 5:21 say something about it "The Lord is sees everything you do. Wherever you go, he is watching". Indeed, He does watch me from the moment I stepped from the tricycle going to the muddy pavement, with the thought in my mind that I am going there without anything. 

Beyond my P20 story, God reminded me to trust Him in all ways. That was just definitely a small amount to be compared to a million peso, but the thought of Him, giving that to me, is seriously so sweet that I thought of Him as my concerned dad. The thing is, God gave me small things to know that all things in this world are enormous if someone sees it with something on their heart. Me? I didn't just see that as money, but I see that as His one of the wonderful divine interventions to a young girl who had had a financial scarcity that day. I know, I know, the Lord I am serving is the owner of all things. I could just actually ask Him to give anything I want, but still, He is still a just God. 

That is why, in one way or another, I am still in need to pour my sweat out for a work to have stable savings someday. But just like what I said, it isn't just about the money, as I am writing this, a thought came into my mind once more. It seems God whispered a lesson to me, another lesson. Did I say that I was walking facing my head down? Oh yes, because I am carefully threading the difficult pavement going to the place. Picture it out, if I was walking with my head up, not looking at the ground, I must have been let that 20 pesos be slipped out by my eyes, enabling not for me to see it.

 It is some naïve metaphor about being humble. Okay. God is probably saying that in all I do, I should be really keep my feet on the ground, to humble everything down, especially to Him. Looking downward is a sign of humbleness. Of course, if I was looking so high, it seems that I don't care about the things that are beyond me. And sometimes looking down will let a person realized that there is really something greater above, not because he is on high, but because he looked down for some time and then place his eyes looking up above.Nevertheless, what God showed me on that day is that He showered blessings in lots and lots of ways! He is indeed a God full of amazing surprises. And I loved Him for that simple, yet glorious day.