Cheerios Sawdust

 

I am frustrated when I get to the bottom of a box of ___ .  Whether it’s Cheerios cereal, Stouffer’s Whales, or Goldfish crackers, the bottom of the box is hard for me to deal with.  I certainly don’t like to pour the bottom bottom of the box into my bowl.  It is a mix of round Cheerios, broken Cheerios, and Cheerios sawdust.  Goldfish are worse: no tails or fins, just scales.  I usually pour the bottom stuff into a preliminary bowl, and then pick out the round Cheerios, depositing them into the final cereal bowl.  Then the preliminary bowl is dumped into the trash.  God reminded the Children of Israel to be careful to discard any left-over manna.  Moses recorded in Exodus 12:10, “And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.”  The Lord was teaching them not to hoard.  And that’s a great lesson for me: God will provide; I don’t need to hoard.  If I give stuff away, God will give me more stuff.  And the Lord will meet your needs too.  Yes, He will!