I'm too tired to make this sound grammatically correct or even a great written story but it's one that must be told so here go...
2 weeks ago I Aidan did some extra chores around the house so I paid him double of his allowance. (10 bucks instead of 5.) So we sat down and divided it out between saving, spending, and God. So he takes his 10 bucks and saves 5 and gives 5 to God. He was saving for a lego and so he said he only needed 5 dollars to get it so he would give the rest to God. And so I used it as a teachable moment on how God takes what we give Him and muliplies it and we read the story of the little boy with the fish and the bread. He got it and wanted to give God $100 bucks when he got it. And we talked about how we don't give to God because we want Him to give it back to us but because we trust Him. I think he got it, for sure some seeds were planeted.
So the day continues and I thought he would want to head to the store and buy his lego, but instead he decides that he wants to save for a video game and so he needs to save $15 more dollars.
And he never once regretted giving God that extra $5. Even though he was now 4 dollars less than he really had earned.
He even offered his $35 this week multiple times. Once for Auntie and Uncle to go to Estonia and share God's love. Once to buy us a desk. Once to buy Micah some coloring books.
And then this week I found $5 that was buried in a card that he got way back at Halloween. And then today I found $8 more that was buried in old card he got for Valentines day.
And now he had $13 more than he expected. He can buy the video game.
He trusted. And God showed him blessing without him even expecting it, and reminded me the faith of a child.
I was humbled.
