Despite knowing the amount needed for the task was not the same as the
amount lying before them, the team began diligently working to assemble
bags of food needed for the drop set to happen a few days later.
supplies for these meals is a weekly occurrence at the AIM base here in
Haiti. We know how many bags of each are required for it to logically,
mathematically work.
He did it over and over in the New Testament and He did it again on our
front porch several days ago.
The team began with 18 sacks of
rice and only three bags of beans. That means we were three bean bags
short of a complete food drop or 300 pounds of missing protein.
The
plan was to divvy up the rice and beans into family size portions in a
ratio of 3:1, just as in previous weeks. Marcio, who handles getting
supplies for the base, already expected to make a run the next day to
purchase the needed sacks of beans.
It seems God had other
plans. I think He delights in showing up and meeting us at the juncture
of faith and need.
We could have easily purchased three sacks of
beans the next day. No one would have thought anything of the situation
had there been 9 bags of rice left waiting to be joined with their
legume friends at a later time.
“I came over and the first two
bags of beans had lasted through 12 bags of rice,” Marcio recounted. “I
was like ‘Whoa! What is going on here?'”
Looking at team members
he asked, “Are you putting the full cup of beans with the rice? Let me
see.”
He began to open several of the finished food bags
expecting error and finding none. The prepared bags were to
specifications.
At the end of the eighteen sacks of rice there
was still approximately 25 pounds of beans left over and a whole lot of amazed and excited disciples.
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