Sometimes God just beats me over the head…

A passage from Matthew 6:19-21 inspired me to do something new in class this semester. In order to strive to keep our hearts directed toward the right place, I carry a treasure box, inside which are several slips of paper with devotion ideas. We’re reading from a book that has a series of word studies.

I began yesterday’s morning about to choose a word, reading that particular study, and then decided that I would leave it to God to choose. So I put several different words on slips of paper and placed them in the treasure box.

After shaking the box, I had a student draw out a slip of paper. Ayin-tovah–meaning “good eye”…the word I was about to unilaterally choose that morning.

The word is an idiom (figure of speech), meaning to be generous: to see the needs of others and respond…one of my favorite Hebrew phrases.

Then this morning, after shaking the box again, a student draws out…Ayin-tovah.

Hmm…okay…God really wants me to get this one.

Then, next class…after physically mixing them up, and shaking the box…again…a student draws out…Ayin-tovah!

I guess God is now beating me over the head with this one.

I’m keeping my eyes peeled. Either I’ve missed something, or He’s about to show me something…

How is your sight?

Waiting to see what comes my way…