From the outside, it was just a regular peanut like the rest in the bag, but once I cracked open the shell, I knew it was special.
Here’s the story from the beginning: While watching a Sunday night football game, Dad and i broke open a fresh bag of unshelled peanuts for a snack. After only a minute, we had a system down. Each peanut shell contained exactly two peanuts; one for Dad, and one for me.
Obviously, this system words very well with two people, but is wasn’t long before Mom came and sat down next to us. I decided to include her in our snack, and offered to share the next peanut with her. At that moment, I think God decided to teach me something because something very unusual happened.
I opened up the shell, and look what was inside!
In my life, I have eaten my share of peanuts, and Dad has eaten more than me, but neither of us have seen very many peanuts like this one. Isn’t it amazing that I picked it out of the bag at exactly the right moment Mom sat down?
Why did that happen? Because God loves it when we share? Yes. He does love it when we share, but there was another reason.
He was showing me that He plans things ahead of time for us because He knows everything that will happen.
God was not surprised when Mom sat down and I decided to share a peanut with her. He also was not surprised one bit that I happened to grab the shell that had three peanuts inside. No!
God was smiling ear to ear the whole time because He made that extra peanut grow in that shell and and then made sure it went into a bag that would be sold to us at the store near our house. The peanut didn’t go into a can of peanuts without shells or into a jar of peanut butter for our crackers.
That little peanut did exactly what God wanted it to do. It taught me that God plans out even the littlest things for us, and that He can use even a peanut to show us.
