A burden light enough…

While sorting the washing the other day, I saw a woman come into the Laundromat pushing a trolley with six large waste bags of dirty washing. “A new record” I thought to myself, I watched as she stopped next to the machine, picked up a bag and tore it open over the open machine door, she repeated the process six times filling four large washing machines! All that was left for her to do was wait for the process of wash, rinse, spin and dry to happen. She sat down, sighed and began talking, not to anyone in particular but she just spoke, I looked up at her and asked the question, do you come here often? She said no and explained that her washing machine no longer worked. She then added that having six children was also not making the process easier, and then she said that losing her job wasn’t much of a help either, except that it gave her the time to come and do the washing. She sighed and then smiled and told me that she was great full that her husband went back to work for the first time in two years after having been robbed and in the process he was shot in the back of the head and by God’s grace the bullet only grazed the side of his brain and although the damage was severe, after many months in hospital and rehabilitation He pulled through.

I immediately thought to myself that this is my chance to share with her all about God and His amazing grace. I thought that I could tell her that she just needed to hang in there, “God will provide.” She looked at me while I was thinking what to say and asked me, “Do you know my God?” and before I could answer she went further and said, “Do you know that he loves me? And because God loves me, I want you to know that He loves you too! I want you to know that God will provide for you too!” I was lost for words I had nothing that this woman didn’t have, in fact, She gave me Jesus all over again. Sometimes our souls are saved by the faith of those who have suffered and lost more. For in losing we have much to gain!

Psalm 46:10 “Be still and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the nations!  I will be exalted among the earth!