Woman gives anonymously and is blessed

I had a couple of “delightful” happenings this past week that I thought I’d share.
Two weeks ago, I felt God remind me of a single mom that I work with who is in a desperate financial situation. I “cheerfully” challenged myself to start giving her some anonymous gift cards in her mailbox from each paycheck. This was a big step for me because since last year I have put myself on an intense plan to rid myself of school debt (and I am happy to tell you I paid off $10,000 in one year!!). This plan did not leave me much room for giving outside of my tithe and sponsor child. The funny thing is, not one hour after I bought the grocery gift card, I received a rebate check in the mail for the same amount from a Christmas purchase I totally forgot about! And yesterday, I bought another random gift card for a different person then went to a baby shower and won a gift card to the same store from the baby bingo game! A few other happenings including a surprise return on taxes, unexpected extra money on a paycheck and then a series of free skiing passes from a friend occurred too.
I’m not surprised that God blesses those who are faithful and willing to trust him. But I found it interesting that I was trying to find other logical reasons for these happenings other than God blessing me. I guess it’s easy for me to believe that God will bless others but why is it so hard to believe that for myself? I seriously struggled with giving God all the credit because I just thought it would be more logical to believe a technicality than an actual divine, tangible, personal intervention.
This whole experience opened the door for me to see the holes in my faith. I’m more motivated now than in a long time to get to a point where truth takes over my every thought and that disbelief will be eliminated. Thanks for being so intentional in teaching us for it truly is making a difference in my personal walk with Jesus.