SubMas Day 8.

#August.

One the eight day of SubMas my true love gave to me: Provision for each new day.

My days in the month of August were not so different from those in July. As I had mentioned in the last SubMas, there was no major happening that occurred in that month. The days in July were a calm repetition of themselves, which was also the case in August, but one of the reoccurrences that piqued my interest was how God had provided for me every day.

With reference to the month of August, the last time I had gotten my provisions sent from home was in the first week of March and once I’ve gone through my provisions, I stay that way until the next time they will be sent. This is because there’s a very big variation in the prices of things in school and at home and I’m not up for all that.

Now, I’m someone that lives on these goodies, and at this point, coupled with the way my taste buds have been severely maltreated over the years, I think I do prefer cereal to actual food.

So the fact that they had finished was an issue. I was living without these goodies for up to four months and I promise you, it wasn’t funny. My Parents had opted several times to send me some provision, but I kept delaying since I was still going to need them to send when I was eventually changing my academic location and I didn’t want to bother them with the extra expenses.

No provision meant more spending on food, and with the way my school had priced their foods with the assumption that we, their students pluck money from trees, money and its availability became a constant problem for me.

BUT My God had helped me massively. From my journal entries, I saw how He would randomly send someone to sponsor my meal or give me snacks when I needed it most. I also saw how He had covered me with favor so that the person serving food at the cafeteria would graciously give me portions that were more than what I had paid for and sometimes with an extra protein.

I had even seen how He had surrounded me with friends that had provisions and they were very willing to share theirs with me. The most recent help was how He had sent two parents I had gone to greet to give me money, money that I wasn’t expecting but was in need of.

I know this money talk can be a sensitive one, and the extreme lack of it can actually lead some people to do things that their conscience and beliefs are firmly against. I know firsthand how the lack of money can impinge on one’s esteem, their mood and also in their productivity, because let’s be real, it’s only someone that has eaten that will be able to show up effectively.

Even as we are all striving to become more financially stable than our younger selves, I just want you to pause a bit and reflect on the number of times God had come through for you this year as it pertains to your finances. You may not be ending the year with the amount of money you desire, but at the very least, you have money enough to cater for your feeding.

These are the words of Apostle Paul in Philippians 4:11-12 (NLT);

11. Not that I was ever in need, for I have learned how to be content with whatever I have.

12. I know how to live on almost nothing or with everything. I have learned the secret of living in every situation, whether it is with a full stomach or empty, with plenty or little.

This it to say he has been in seasons of plenty and also in seasons of lack and in all that experience, he had learnt that Godliness with contentment is the best remedy to getting through any unfavorable season.

He had moved about with a consciousness that God is his Shepherd and so He will provide his basic, daily needs, and then give him the wealth through which he can be a blessing to others.

I’ve told God and the devil heard it, that I’m going to be a very wealthy Woman. A Woman that’s going to lend to nations and be very instrumental in curbing poverty in my generation. And so, even as I go through this seasons of little, I’m allowing God build me in preparation for the wealth to come while also depending on Him for my present needs.

This state I am right now is the least I’ll ever be and I believe that wholeheartedly.

I also want you to build such consciousness as it will help drive comparison far from you. Maybe you might not have the funds to afford a “detty December’’ this year, but please, intentionally choose contentment and gratefully stay at home with your family members whose lives God has preserved.

More than money, there are other luxuries of life and if you can just shift your focus from this continual strive to get and to also post as others are dong, then maybe you’ll actually see how blessed you are.

Today, I learnt from service that Christmas is more than the holiday, the food and other frivolities that we’ve tagged this season to. That this period has been set aside to celebrate the one who thought you worthy enough to become a child for. And one thing we see occurring consistently in Jesus’ life while on earth is that He had gone about doing good.

And so, in lieu of focusing majorly on yourself this period, I can drop a suggestion that you pick a family or a person, and just extend God’s love to them, no matter how little. This kind act will most definitely keep your heart grateful cause then you will come to a realization that you actually have the things which the less privileged are desperately praying for.

Go out and do good this period. Let the love of God flow through you. Let a family be reminded that God sees and hears their prayers. Jesus sacrificed for you, so follow suit and do the same for someone. There’s so much fulfillment in the very act of giving.

God loves you, He love me too and He loves every other person, so go, tell them about His love through your sharing of the Gospel and also your resources.

Merry almost Christmas people, and do have a blessed week ahead.

#Shalom.

Signed: Abba’s Handpiece.