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God knows exactly what we need.
story, Grains of Sand, a little girl has lots of questions about God. I have to admit, that there are times when I have lots of questions about God, too. I also have questions about many things that go on in my life. How would God like me to handle a certain situation? What should I do about this or about that? It's good to ask God questions. After all, as Keeka found out, God has all the answers.
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When I wrote the children’s song, Grains of Sand, I never dreamt that I would be thinking about it as I filled up sandbags to be used in fighting the flooding of the Sheyenne River in North Dakota. It brought to mind the fact that God knows our every need, and provides for us in so many different ways. For us, it meant that when we came home one evening we found some sandbag angels had been to our house and had shored up our back yard against the rising waters.
That was such an act of kindness and self-sacrifice that touched our hearts so deeply. And it inspired us and renewed us so that we, too, could fill bags and bags full of tiny, tiny grains of sand.
I thought about how one tiny little grain of sand by itself, seems so small and insignificant, and yet when together with millions of other grains, will fill a sandbag. And that sandbag, put together with hundreds of other bags, would be enough to make a wall strong enough to keep the floodwaters at bay. We often think of ourselves in that way, so insignificant. Yet God realizes the potential of every single one of us. He knows our weaknesses and our strengths. He can take them and blend them with the weakness and strength of others, to accomplish so much more than we can on our own. We’ve had a lot of people helping us and praying for us. They know that if we invite God into our crisis, we will find that peace of knowing He is near. As the Sheyenne flowed to heights that it had never reached before, we could remember how Jesus stilled the lake waters and He indeed knows exactly what we need.
I thought about how one tiny little grain of sand by itself, seems so small and insignificant, and yet when together with millions of other grains, will fill a sandbag. And that sandbag, put together with hundreds of other bags, would be enough to make a wall strong enough to keep the floodwaters at bay. We often think of ourselves in that way, so insignificant. Yet God realizes the potential of every single one of us. He knows our weaknesses and our strengths. He can take them and blend them with the weakness and strength of others, to accomplish so much more than we can on our own. We’ve had a lot of people helping us and praying for us. They know that if we invite God into our crisis, we will find that peace of knowing He is near. As the Sheyenne flowed to heights that it had never reached before, we could remember how Jesus stilled the lake waters and He indeed knows exactly what we need.
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Grains of Sand Devotional