Every Need Met

A little earlier today I was having a great conversation with a friend. We had been on the phone for a good little while and I knew my battery was getting low. When I got the 20% warning, I checked my purse for my charger and it wasn’t there. That’s when I realized I had left it at home. (Yes, I can hear your gasps as I type this!)

You would think I’d have another charger in my desk drawer or in my car or somewhere, but I knew I didn’t because my main charger had started becoming so unreliable that I had started using my old backup charger as my primary. So, everyday for the last couple of weeks, I’ve had to remember to put it back in my purse if I had taken it out to charge my phone at home. And on the one day I failed to do that, it happened to be on the day I was catching up with a friend and running low on power.

Well, the conversation was too good to end, so I did what any other girl would do… I just kept on talking. Before you know it, I heard the chime of the 10% warning ringing in my ear. “Oh, no!” In that moment, reality started to set in. Not just because my phone was about to die, but because I remembered I was expecting an important phone call within the hour!

It was at that point that I began searching every desk in the building… wishing, hoping, praying that somebody at some point had left a charger on their desk that I could use. But to no avail, I found nothing. I went back, sat at my desk and continued my conversation until the inevitable happened… my phone died. As soon as it did I jumped up, closed the blinds, turned off the lights, grabbed by laptop and my purse and headed out the door. I needed to get home to charge my phone before that call came through.

I was in the car, getting ready to start it when the Holy Spirit said, “Check your bag in the trunk.” I had thought about checking my bag when I was at 20% but I had convinced myself that I had also left it at home since I was trying to travel light. This time, I didn’t ignore the prompting. I popped my trunk, got out, and right there was my bag. Look at God! I immediately unzipped it, went straight to the inside pocket and grabbed the brand new charger I had won at an arcade I took my children to last summer! I grabbed my purse out of the car, went back inside, was able to finish my work and take the call at the designated time. The very thing I needed was available to me the whole time. If only I had listened to that still, small voice that tried to tell me where to go to get what I needed before I was completely drained, I could have saved some time and stress and I could have finished my conversation with my friend.

There are so many different directions I could take this story, but the one thing I think we need to focus in on is the fact that there are so many things we think we need when in actuality God has already provided them for us. Why was my bag still in the trunk of my car and more importantly why was I playing arcade games at a waterpark in Texas a year ago? And why had I never used that charger before today? Could it be because God knew the prize I would choose would be that charger and that I would stick it in my bag that would be left in my trunk on the very day I needed it to be there? God is faithful! This may seem like an oversimplified example of God’s provision, but I’ve learned to be grateful for the smallest of things so that I’m prepared to value the greatest of things. If God is faithful enough to orchestrate everything that was necessary to get me a charger for my phone so I could receive a phone call, how much more do you think He’s willing to do to ensure you have what you need to fulfill what He’s called you to do?

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