The Train Ticket

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Good morning, and welcome to starting right with Danny Mac. I'm gonna be here five times a week to help you get a great five minutes. Start to your day. I'm gonna give you some encouragement in some hole from God's word because I really want you to know that you matter, that you are important and you have a purpose. So I invited to subscribe to this podcast and join me here Money to Friday to help your day by starting right with Danny Mac. Ken Boom is most well known for her book The Hiding Place, in which he tells the story of how our family hid and helped numbers of Jews who were trying to escape from the Nazis after the Nazis had actually invaded their homeland, which was hauling during World War Two. After the war, Cory wrote that book along with many others that tell about her story. Even as she was growing up in the early 19 hundreds. One of those stories involved a trip that her and her father were going to take on a train. They were walking out to the train station and her father had purchased the tickets ahead of time, and he had them in his pocket. Corey being the young girl that she was, she wanted to hold on to her ticket herself. She wanted it in her hand as she kept pestering her father. Dad, can I hold my ticket? I want to hold my ticket. And he kept saying, for no Corey, I'm going to carry it for you she said. But Dad, I really want to hold my ticket and he would say, No, I'll give it to you When we get there, I'm gonna carry it for you. That would walk a bit further and Cory would pull on his hand in his arm against the dad. Give me that. Can I please Please, could I have the ticket? And he said, Corey, I will give it to you when you need it. Just as they arrived at the cashier's office at the train station, Cory's father took the tickets out of his pocket, and he gave one to Cory so that she could present it to the cashier of the office. Her father then went through and were able to sit on the bench there at the train platform, waiting for the train to come along. Her dad used this as a teaching time now to tell her something about how God works and the grace of God, he said. Corey, you know that train ticket is a lot like God's grace. Sometimes we think we need it right now. Sometimes we get so upset about why we haven't seen what we want and that we can't get a hold of what we're searching for and we get more uptight and we were anxious because it's not coming. And what if I don't have it when I really need it when I get to where I'm going? He pulled Corey close to home and put his arm around her and said, That ticket is just like God's Grace. You thought you needed it when we were walking here and you didn't need it then. But when we got here, I gave it to you because that's when you needed it. And when you need God's grace, when you need God's love, that's when God will give it to you. We need God's grace in our lives. We need his power and his grace working through us, particularly in situations where we don't know what the answers are. What We don't know where we're going and what we're doing, and we don't know how to get through. And we cry out to God. We say, Lord, hear me, Answer me. Give me what I need right now. Please, God, give me what I need. And he says, not yet. Not yet. Paul experience that in the book of Second Corinthians he'd been crying out to God saying, Lord, I have this thorn in my flesh and it's distracting me. It's hindering me. And God, I need you to remove it. Now, please take this away from me. And each time God responded with the same thing. He said, My Grace is sufficient for you. It took three times for that message to get through to Paul. But then Paul finally realized what that meant. It meant that God was going to give him everything he needed to get through everything he was going through exactly when he needed it. Here we are right now for our own lives and whatever we're going through, whatever we're struggling with, we have a promise from God, a god that loves us so much that he will give to us by his grace, his goodness, his direction, his supply, his healing when we trust him and his grace is sufficient for us, because those times when we're the weakest are the times when he is the strongest for us. If we let him do that, God's got enough grace for you for today. He's got enough grace for you for tomorrow. He's got enough grace for you to be able to deal with every day that you come up against and every struggle that you're going through. He loves you so much that he's not gonna let you go through it alone. Let his grace be sufficient for you today and lean on it, knowing that God loves you with take care. Thank you for joining us today. And be sure to check out a brand new podcast Life and Hope with Danny Mac and keep tuning in Monday to Friday for starting right. Danny Mac will be on both of them. Take care and have a wonderful day. God bless