No matter who you are or what your position is in the Church, there is a role for you in the mission for God. Here is what Richard Klebba from the Trinidad Seventh-day Adventist Church in Trinidad, Colorado, experienced:
I’m the treasurer of our church, and, for the last several years, I’ve been using the bank’s drive-thru for all my banking. During my devotions one Monday morning, I was inspired to go into the bank that day and take the book The Pathway to Peace and give it to the person God would direct me to. This was totally new to me. I’m over 80 and in all my years nothing like this has ever happened to me.
I live in rural Colorado, and it takes about 20 minutes to get to town, so I try not to go every day. On that Monday, by the time I was ready to go, it was almost two hours past the time I had planned to leave. I considered postponing my trip to town until the next day, so I went. I parked next to the bank, picked up my bank bag and the book, said a short prayer, and went inside.
Not knowing who I should go to I went up to the first window. The clerk was busy and asked me to go to the next window, which I did. That teller was also busy, and I asked if I should go to the next window, she said no, she’d be right with me.
When she finished what she’d been doing she asked how she could help me. I told her I needed to make a deposit as I handed her my bank bag. I then handed her the book and said, “this is going to sound strange to you because it sounds strange to me as I say it. I usually go to the drive-thru bank but this morning the Lord told me to come into the bank and give this book called The Pathway to Peace to the person He’d direct me to, and He led me to you.”
She said, “He did?” and a tear trickled down her cheek. I said, “I think He showed me the right person,” and she nodded slightly. She finished the deposit and handed me back my bank bag and I left. I didn’t even get her name.
As I left the bank, I was praising the Lord for using me that afternoon. I was the only one who had that book and would have an opportunity to give it to her. I know God has a sense of humor because as I was feeling a slight sense of pride for being used by His Holy Spirit. He reminded me that He had also used a donkey to talk to someone when nothing else was available.
I’m praying for this woman and for a resolution to whatever had caused her such distress. Over the next few weeks, I found out that she is a single mom with two boys. After saying that she enjoyed the book, I asked her if she’d like to read another book. She said she would, so, the following week, I brought a copy of Desire of Ages for her.
All God wants is our willingness to be used by Him. When we’re willing, He’ll show us what He needs us to do, then He’ll help us accomplish the task.
Praise the Lord!
—Richard Klebba is the treasurer and head deacon at Trinidad Seventh-day Adventist Church. Photo by Flickr.
