Last Friday, I was sitting at a popular bagel restaurant for breakfast with one of the students in my youth group – it was the beginning of a one week internship that he wanted to do with me. Midway through our meal our waitress brings us this note telling us that some person wanted to give it to us. It seemed pretty random because we didn’t even know who it was. We thought it might have been someone who saw us pray before we ate. Anyway, we were grateful for the note and continued our meal and conversation. When we were getting ready to leave, I was wondering why our bill hadn’t come yet. I thought they might have forgotten about us (since we stayed for such a long time) so we got up and I was going to pay at the cash register. When I asked for the bill, the cashier told me that it was my lucky day because someone had already paid for us.
The person who left us the note must have paid for us!
Wow. That’s amazing.
But why? What motivated that person to bless us so anonymously?
Why can’t we all be more generous and loving like that anonymous person? If we were, I wonder what this world would look like?
That’s pretty amazing.
It’s definitely an expression of the gospel of grace. Grace is a gift, and any gift we give is an expression of some grace.
Giving what is not indebted to you is grace.
If someone shows us grace is changes our being. It makes us want to give to others.
Just my two cents.
Great way of putting it!
Love it.
I see you have arrived home safely. 🙂
I don’t know why I hadn’t read this before! That is truly amazing.