In God's Economy

Faithful, God-honoring leadership showcases God's economy at our family's favorite organization Children's Hunger Fund http://www.chfus.org/. We miss their volunteer days where toddlers to the elderly sorted, labeled, and packed food and other items to needy situations all to help the local church reach people with the gospel of Christ. Children's Hunger Fund has an amazing, efficient usage of the donated money--something like 99.9% goes directly to the those they are serving.

While sorting and repackaging new furniture for an orphanage, I mused that God has a sense of humor. The prices were listed  on this donated furniture from a major department store. The furniture was overpriced for its quality. In fact, so many pieces had broken that we were using two or three sets of bunk beds to make a functional set. So, the overpricing of the furniture actually created a situation where the orphans who had NO furniture would receive some brand new furniture. In God's economy nothing is wasted.

Another incident of profiteering gone awry was the shipment of sandals confiscated at customs. The sandals were look-alikes of a major brand. A semi-truck brought the perfectly good sandals to Children's Hunger Fund to be marked (so they could not be resold) and sent to a country where bare feet are an invitation to parasites. In God's economy His purposes will be fulfilled.

This thought of "in God's economy nothing is wasted and His purposes will be fulfilled" have brought me great comfort when facing my wasting body, my inadequacies of homeschooling, the bumbling mistakes I make, our house repairs that demand attention, or the great costs of anything. God wastes none of it. His purposes will be fulfilled. I may not see it now and may have to wait til I am in heaven--but one day I will see that

"In the perfect economy of God,there is no waste . . .

that in eternity, God's glorious fulfillment, 

His end, will more than justify His strange and difficult means . . .

if given back to Him in love and trust, 

will be made to show forth the praise of the glory of His grace."

--Margaret Clarkson in Grace Grows Best in Winter