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Blowing the Blessing

"Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you." 1 Thessalonians 5:18

Cold rain hammered my car, turning narrow streets into icy waterways. On my way to an indoor garage sale, I didn’t care. I parked in front of the house and then wandered through, searching for hidden gems. Under a pile of bedspreads I found a shiny saxophone, beautifully engraved with the figure of a woman. It was vintage, in pristine condition, and mine for only 20 dollars. I planned on selling it for quick cash.

An elderly man caught me by the arm. "I'll give you 20 dollars more than what you paid for that sax if you’ll let me have it."

Talk about quick cash. He took the sax and I pocketed the money. At home, I sat at the computer to look up the worth of the instrument I’d just sold. A sax like the one I had purchased was going for five hundred dollars on an online auction. When the final bid reached nearly 1,000 dollars, I shrieked! With a household budget stretched to the max, I’d given away God's provision—blown the blessing.

I replayed the moment I sold the sax. Envious and consumed by greed—God was revealing a side of me I hadn't known existed. I turned to verses on praising God, then thanked God for the lesson. My turmoil fled.

Months later, I spied my sax buyer hunched over a box, sifting through old sheet music. He spied me too. "I don’t know if you remember me but I bought a sax from you a while back. It rekindled my passion for playing and now, being retired, I volunteer to teach kids how to play." He wiggled his fingers over the keys of an invisible sax. I noticed his frailty, his worn clothes, and his scuffed shoes.

The lesson was clear to me. It wasn’t my blessing that got away. I was only the middle man in delivering that man's blessing to him. He, in turn, became a blessing to others. On earth God uses our feet of clay to deliver miracles. If I should lose everything tomorrow, I still have what matters, family, friends and God's plan for me. And in that, I give thanks.

Scripture Memory Verse

Psalm 119:71

It is good for me

that I have been

afflicted;

that I might

learn thy statutes.

God's Promise

Romans 8:28 

And we know

that all things

work together for good

to them that love God,

to them who are

the called

according to his

purpose.