Angels among us

Reading from the My Bible Friends in this pic.

So we've been going through the book of Genesis with our kids for evening worship. We read about how Abraham was sitting in the door of his tent on a hot day and saw three travelers. He jumped up, ran to meet them and respectfully bowed to greet them. He washed their feet, and told them to rest under a shade tree. Then he told Sarah to make them some bread, told a servant to cook up some steak, and gave them a hearty meal of meat, bread, butter and milk. After they ate, these three people told Abraham that he and Sarah were going to have a child (at which Sarah laughed when she overheard it). Then Abraham walked them to the edge of his "driveway" as they departed to go to Sodom. (Genesis 18:1-16). These three "people" were actually two angels and Jesus himself! But Abraham didn't know that. He was just showing hospitality because he believed it was the right thing to do. I explained that to the kids and encouraged them to treat everyone as though they might be angels or Jesus in disguise.

This is a Sabbath afternoon story time.

Several weeks later we had the honor of showing hospitality to Monique for a month. She ate breakfast and lunch with us every day. I LOVED cooking for her because she was soooooo affirming! We connected a lot and I felt sad when her time with us came to an end. I took her to the airport and as we said our goodbyes she told me that she and Jonathan got me a Mother's Day gift and that it should be coming in the mail soon. I was like "What? You SO didn't have to do that!" (Big smile and warm fuzzies inside just at the thought that they would get me something!).  Sure enough, today a HUGE box came FedEx and lo and behold it was a 9 tray Excalibur Dehydrator!!!!!!!! Can you believe it?!!! Those things go for like $250!!!! Seriously! That is an AWESOME gift! I've been wanting one of those for forever! I can't wait to start using it!

It made me think of the verse, "give and it shall be given unto you, good measure, pressed down, and shaken together and running over shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again" (Luke 6:38).

It also reminded me of Hebrews 13:2 "Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares." I'm pretty sure Jonathan and Monique aren't literal angels, but this dehydrator definitely qualifies as a gift given through divine prompting. I didn't expect that my hospitality towards them would be returned back in such a lavish gift! It ministered to me and of angels it is said that they are "sent forth to minister" (Heb 1:14)

So, thank you Monique and Jonathan for being like angels to me. I feel extremely grateful.