A Word in Due Time

Those of you who know me, know how much I adore my grandchildren.  As they enter and progress through their teenage years, my heart aches for them.  I know the trials they will go through and the decisions they will have to make.  No one can make decisions for a teenager, but they don't always have the experience and wisdom to make life-changing decisions on their own.  

Two of my granddaughters are in Portland so I mostly see them only on school holidays.  When they were down for spring break, my heart was heavy, knowing some of the things they were each facing.  I didn't know what to do but as we were taking them home, it dawned on me.  I asked them both if they would take one month and go through a chapter of Proverbs each day with me.  

Each day of April, I posted a chapter of Proverbs to their FB messages, along with a little blurb about what that chapter meant to me.  About halfway through the month, I was getting discouraged because there had been little response on the part of the girls.  My dear husband reminded me that God asked me to be faithful to plant the see, that the growth and harvest of that seed was not up to me but up to God.

Towards the end of the month one of the girls started responding every day and we had some good conversations.  Still, I wondered, did it mean anything?  Was I just being silly or had I really heard from God?

Today I received an email from a friend I went to grammar school with.  I had not heard from this friend for YEARS.  Here is the text of her email:  (please forgive the errors, I didn't want to take liberties with her words.  She was probably typing on a mobile device - you all know how hard that is!)

"I felt to tell you that when you where in grammar school and had your little bible study's. That helped people later in life remember the Lord little bit. words you spoke back then as a child even if they didn't remember much of it.  You sewed a seed in them small hearts. I remember myself listening only once.  I know that was others out there more frequently. I don't know anything about your life but I felt led to tell you you did a good thing as a child.

I have been back in church now sense Aug 2011. God sent me to a wonderful church in Bullhead City, AZ. Pastor Barb likes to say where at the ends of the earth. I have to say most of us really do like the desert here in Arizona away from everything.

So grandma teach your grand kids all about Jesus."

Isn't God good?  He is faithful to meet us at the point of our need and to send a Word when we need it.

Galatians 6:9

American Standard Version (ASV)

⁹ And let us not be weary in well-doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.