NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF A T-SHIRT!
I walked into Food Lion (I normally go to walmart) to pick up vitamin C (I got sick cause I ran out last week) I was wearing my "Bible Smuggler" t-shirt from The Voice of the Martyrs (which I randomly grabbed out of my drawer this morning) and this lady stops me as I'm walking to the check out line. She reads my shirt and tells me she is a new believer and she is interested in anything that has to do with the Bible. We chat for a few minutes then I ask her if she has a local church. She says she went to a couple in the area for a while but she really doesn't have one right now but she has been looking. So I, advocating for my own church of course, invite her to mine (she happens to live right near the seminary which happens to be right near my church). She asks me some things (good questions like: what is your pastor like? Do they teach the Bible? etc.) and as I answered them she got more and more excited. She said she would look for the church and would try to come Sunday.
All of this to say: Thank you, God, for being sovereign! Sometimes it is easy for me to forget that every little thing you do is ultimately orchestrated by God. For instance, I wouldn't have gone to Food Lion because I don't particularly like it, and Walmart is closer to work. Again, I had been cold all day, but when I got in the car to go home I took my jacket off to take my smock off and just didn't put it back on (she wouldn't have seen the shirt if I had my jacket on). And rather than walking to the first empty check out line I walked up and down the front of the store to look for a cooler with a drink that I wanted (which I ultimately never found) and that was when I ran into her. Normally I would say "weird how that worked..." but it isn't weird. It's God. I hope and pray she comes, and even if she doesn't I learned a valuable lesson: even when you feel as if God is not using you at that time in you life in a mighty way, He is, it is in the little things.
