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This particular subject is something that I feel that God uses to bless you and your OWN day in return. As for my personal story, Sirena (my younger sister for those who don’t know) and I didn’t really feel like we really wanted to continue helping out our High School with their Christmas concert. For Sirena, she just didn’t like playing the Viola that much. For me, I was just being selfish and didn’t feel like giving up the beginning of my winter break to do this. But in the end we got through it and it wasn’t so bad helping after all. But it really didn’t matter what happened during the concert that really touched me. It was the after math that made me realize God had blessed me in so many ways.

After the concert, God gave me the privilege of giving two of my friends a ride home. This was something that Sirena and I saw as a positive thing. If we didn’t stay, those two would have been stuck there waiting for rides for a while. A bonus right? So as we were on our way home, not far from the school, we passed by a girl who was sadly walking in the rain without an umbrella and with only socks on and just some light clothes. IT WAS COLD OUTSIDE!!! So while at the stop-light, I asked Sirena if she would be so kind as to give up her umbrella for the poor girl since she was the only one with an umbrella. We looked around the car to see if we had anything else that we could give her but it seems that was as good as we could do. But as we stopped to give her the umbrella, we asked her where she was headed. She had the biggest smile on her face afterwards and told us her story.

She was a girl that had hung out with the wrong crowd and somehow got into a fight with her best friend which turned into a situation where she ended up walking away from this friend with no shoes, no JACKET, and no umbrella. We all felt sooo bad. And then it hit us all. We could give her a RIDE home!!!! When we offered her the ride, this girl went from a smile to tears instantly. But not because of the offer in itself, it was because she realized that God had answered her prayers in sending us to help her. The whole time while she was walking home, feeling so lonely, feeling like there was no one around to help her, and no friends to be that support, there we were. God had allowed us to be his answer to her prayers that there ARE people kind enough to care, to lend a hand, and to show her love. She couldn’t help but see his glory in this situation. The next thing we know, she started saying how great God was and how much she wanted to go back to church because it is filled with such lively and happy people.

It’s so amazing how God can truly use us to touch the lives of others when we least expect it. The cool part about this story is how we got to see results instantly of how God had touched her so deeply. Most times when things happen where we’re able to stop our clocks just for a second to help another, we don’t always see the results of how God is able to work in their lives, but we hope that the little things we do blesses them exponentially. THIS time in particular, God revealed his plan to us plainly and he revealed just how big of a difference it made that Sirena and I had helped out with the concert. None of this would have happened if we didn’t help out and we never would’ve have met that girl who blessed all our hearts with her story of how we had been her sign of God’s help in her life.

WOW God is amazing isn’t He! My suggestion to you is to take the time to help a person out even if it means to stop the clock of your little day, because in the end, not only are you helping someone else who may be in need, you are also allowing yourself the blessing of knowing that God was able to use you in some way.

“And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds.” -Hebrews 10:24
“See to it that no one misses the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many.” -Hebrews 12:16

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