Trusting God, even with the little things
Originally appeared online in the teen series Your Healings - September 10, 2024.
I had volunteered to bring food coloring for a project at school. But on the day of the project, I forgot it. For a moment, I was stressed because I knew people were relying on me, and I felt I’d let them down.
But instead of freaking out, I asked myself what I was going to do. I could call my mom, or I could tell my classmates and teacher that I’d forgotten. Just then, though, a sentence that I’d read on the wall of my local branch Church of Christ, Scientist, came to me. It says, “Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need” (Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 494).
Attending Christian Science Sunday School has taught me that God, divine Love, meets our needs, big or small.
Attending Christian Science Sunday School has taught me that God, divine Love, meets our need, big or small. Sometimes we get an idea that meets the need, and sometimes the actual thing that’s needed is supplied in an unexpected way. This was comforting to remember, and I moved on with my day. Even though I didn’t know how things would work out, I trusted the promise that God meets every need.
Later that morning, I asked my art teacher if there was food coloring at the school. He said no. I felt a little deflated. The class in which we’d be doing the project was approaching, so I didn’t have much time.
From attending Sunday School and summer camp for Christian Scientists, and from reading the Bible with my mom, I knew about people in the Bible who’d turned to God to meet their needs. Moses had times of despair when he was leading the Israelites through the wilderness after their escape from Egypt. There were many problems and setbacks, but God kept providing for them.
One of the problems they faced in the desert was figuring out how to get food and water. At one point they even wished they’d stayed in captivity, where they’d had plenty of both. But then God provided food for the people to eat and showed Moses how to get water from a rock (see Exodus 16:13–15 and 17:5, 6). That story was a good reminder that I could trust God to provide me with an idea that would solve things. I felt a surprising confidence that everything would work out.
The project was the next period, so this had all worked out in the nick of time!
Another idea came to me in my next class. I asked my teacher if she had any food coloring, and she directed me to the science lab. The science teacher told me she had food coloring, but when I looked where she had told me it was, it wasn’t there, and I got nervous. But I trusted that the
teacher was listening to, and being led by, God, because God speaks to all of us, just as He meets all of our needs.
Then she looked in a different location and found the food coloring. I was so relieved. The project was the next period, so this had all worked out in the nick of time! In class, we were able to do the project, and everyone really enjoyed it.
This experience taught me that I could listen to God and trust Him. The most meaningful part, though, was witnessing how God meets everyone’s need, no matter how small.
