God's Amazing Gift! "Today"

As I was preparing our homeschool material for this Fall, I was reading the introduction for this Master Books book! And it is truly amazing house this story relates to our lives!!

From the introduction-

"There is an ancient story out of the Middle East which tells of three merchants crossing the desert. They were traveling at night in the darkness to avoid the heat of the day. As they were crossing over a dry creek bed, a loud attention-demanding voice out of the darkness commanded them to stop. They were the ordered to get doen offtheir camels, stoop down and pick up pebbles from the creek bed, and put them into their pockets.

Immediately after doing as they had been commanded, they were then told to leave that place and continue until dawn before they stopped to set up camp. This mysterious voice told them that in the morning they would be both sad and happy. Understandably shaken, they obeyed the voice and traveled on through the rest of the night without stopping. When morning dawned, these three merchants anxiously looked into their pockets. Instead of finding the pebbles as expected, there were precious jewels! And, they were both happy and sad. Happy that they had picked up some of the pebbles, but sad because they hadn't gathered more when they had the opportunity.

This fable expresses how many of us feel about the treasures of God's Word. There is coming a day when we will be thrilled because we have absorbed as much as we have, but sad because we had not gleaned more....."

This can also be said in all areas of our lives. There are time when I wished I had gleaned more, but the amazing fact is God has given me another day to continue to grow and help others. Praise His Holy Name!!!🙏🙏✝️✝️🔥🔥