Alright so I know I haven’t posted in a really long time but heres whats new! Most recently I’ve been dealing with numbers calculating how much things cost how I can reach my goal how much of my goal I have already reached and just a bunch of numbers but quickly I found that God’s faithfulness is not in the numbers it’s not in someone donating three dollars or $3000 it’s god’s timing and his faithfulness in the season that I am in right now. God has been working with me on that.
A really cool way that I get to experience numbers is in my classroom, I work with four and five-year-olds who don’t really understand numbers quite yet however numbers are a part of everything they do. This includes having the same talk at lunch time with the children, they will ask can I have seconds on food that we are serving that day, so I count the chicken nuggets and hope that there’s enough to pass around to the 22 children that we have, however most times there’s not enough so I explain that to the children and every time they don’t fully understand why I can’t give them a chicken nugget because there’s some in the bowl. What they do understand is that I can always call the office to send the class more, they understand my faithfulness to get them food and to make sure they are full for lunch. Recently when I’ve been thinking about this it reminds me of the Bible passage in John 6 that talks about when the boy didn’t have enough loaves of bread or fish to feed the multitudes of people Jesus didn’t really care about how much there was or wasn’t Jesus just wanted the people to sit down and allow God to be faithful, they trusted God and his faithfulness to provide them food just as my kids trust that I will call and get them more food.God didn’t look at the 5000 people and say oh shoot well I guess there just won’t be enough food, instead he simply made enough because he is faithful.
God isn’t concerned with the numbers and the logistics of things, he knows the plans, and does not need us to figure out the numbers for him. I think that a lot of times in life we look at numbers and how they affect everything in our lives and how we can gain control of them but instead of looking at that number I think that we need to have a check with ourselves and look for God’s hand and his faithfulness throughout that situation or that hard time with money instead of focusing on the number and wishing for more or sometimes less focus on God’s hand in the mix focus on his faithfulness.
XOXO
Heather
