Three co-workers, good friends, are sitting at their usual table in the crowded cafeteria on a cold day when no one left the building for lunch. Their standard lunchroom table is in a far corner, away from a lot of the foot traffic and loudmouthed tables where topics from sports to so-called-secrets are being discussed. Let me paint the picture better. At those other tables, co- workers sit and talk about topics from A-Z, the decibel level is off the chart, and you would think they were sitting a great distance between one another. There’s the setting, not let’s get back to the story.
One day Myra comes to the table where she regularly sits with Myron and Millie. Myra looks disturbed, Myron asks, “What’s wrong?” Myra goes on to explain, “Every week I go to church, and I hears many members, not all, but many of them talking about their many blessings. Some even talk about blessings on top of blessings. It makes me wonder, where are mine?” Millie says, “You are blessed Myra. Let me ask some questions and you answer me. Were you promised to see this very day when you laid down to sleep last night? Can you name one day that I have not seen your big lunch container, the size of a small carry-on luggage, filled with snacks for breaks and a lunch that is equivalent to some people’s three-course dinner meal? Myra, didn’t you drive your 2024 vehicle here this morning, arriving without experiencing an incident or an accident?” Myra says, “Yes, but those many members that I am referring to talk about an abundance of blessings.” Millie is about to speak, but Myron jumps into the conversation, still chewing on his large roast beef sandwich made of meat from the previous night’s dinner, and he says, “Just keep praying! The Lord will pour you out blessings that there will not be room enough to receive them.” Myron supports what he believes to be true with a sentence that obviously had an exclamation mark at the end of it, “That’s in the bible!” Millie can’t bite her tongue. Now, she could have just let Myron’s statement stand. However, Millie knew she had to comment on what Myron said, knowing that he had only spoken part of what the Bible says. Millie goes on to quote the closing verse below, verbatim. Afterwards, Myron was quiet, but Myra was quite interested. She asks if Mille would explain what she said later, after work. Millie said, “Sure! Somebody had to teach me one day and I will be more than willing to help you understand what I just quoted from the scriptures.”
Reader, I know this is Sunday and you got to get to church, but I cannot close without asking a question directed at you: “Was Millie only talking to Myra or is Millie talking to you too!” Have a great start to your week! Be blessed!
“Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in My house, and try Me now in this,” Says the Lord of hosts, “If I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you such blessing that there will not be room enough to receive it.” (Malachi 3:10 NKJV)
Committed to the climb,
Mark L. King