I determined to listen to God for guidance in all matters, and I promised Him I would obey whatever He told me. There were so many things which needed solutions. One was a feeling of friction between my colleague and myself. She had ten children and often was not well, and could not carry out her work program regularly. I felt very critical of her for trying to hold onto her job.One morning early I asked God for guidance: what could I do to dissolve the critical feeling I had in my heart for her? “Take her a fresh egg,” came a thought. Well! That wasn’t my idea, and who would say that was guidance! A dozen fresh eggs might be reasonable – but one! That might insult my colleague. So, I wrote it off and gave up for that morning.
I went to school to teach my classes in the Mission School. At noon when I came home, there was a chicken in a large armchair in my living room! (Our houses in India were wide open to the public.) The hen flew down and started to cackle and there was an egg, freshly laid! Dear me! That had never happened before, nor since. I remembered what I had scratched out in my new “guidance” notebook: “Take her a fresh egg.”“Why not obey?”
“She’ll laugh at me.”
“Results are not your business. Your business is obedience. You promised.” I took the egg and went to her house. Her little son was outside. That helped. “Here, Tumby, take this egg to your mother, please, it’s for her.” He took it and went in the house. I didn’t wait, but left quickly.
That evening the mother came to me. “How did you happen to bring me that egg? It was so fresh and good.”
“Well, that was my guidance this morning.” And then I told what happened. “Oh! That’s just like God!” she said. “He knew I had nothing to eat this day. There just wasn’t enough food for all, so I went without. Then you brought the egg for me. When I ate it, I felt so satisfied and strengthened.” From that day she and all her family began to “listen to God” daily for guidance. And all the friction in my heart was gone, and there sprung up an understanding and Christian love for her and for all her family.
(Mary Geegh, God Guides, pp. 2-3)
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