I‘m beginning to realize that the majority of the Christian walk (for me, at least) is acting confident that I knew God would perform a miracle in a situation whenever those around me are surprised, whilst simulatenously thinking, That‘s crazy, how did He do that?
This is more a loose example, but I was playing Monopoly one time with my niece and cousin. I‘ll call them Hannah and Jordan for the sake of coherency. But basically Jordan had ran out of money and was going to essentially lose the game, leaving just me and Hannah. So, I gave her half of my own money so she could keep playing. Hannah questioned if that was allowed, but the rules never explicitly stated that I couldn‘t. She said something along the lines of „Oh, but now you‘re worse off than I am. What if you end up going bankrupt now?“
Jokingly, obviously, I said: „The Lord provides.“
Fastforward to my turn and I landed on the Free Parking or whatever it‘s called - and by our rules, not sure if it‘s a universal rule, that means we get whatever money has accumulated in the middle of the board from taxes and cards. And, wouldn‘t you know it, the amount of money in the centre of the board was the exact amount I had given Jordan, maybe a bit more.
And it happened. Every. Single. Time.
We made a joke out of it, but then it turned into a whole sermon. Jordan and I kept giving each other money whilst Hannah played the game normally, and every single time we would give money to each other, one of us would land on the Free Parking and get exactly that amount back - if not double.
Hannah thought we were cheating and had said: „There‘s no way that‘s actually working.“
(All three of us are Christians, by the way, this was all in good fun)
And playing it off, Jordan and I were confidently going: „We told you God would provide. The Lord giveth and He taketh away.“
But the whole time, I‘m internally freaking out, wondering - Oh my word, how is this actually working?
Anyway, thanks for listening to my TedTalk. God bless!