God is after your money, Right?

On June 12, 2013, Ravi Zacharias was speaking at RZIM's Summer Institute in the US and I was watching his live stream in Daejeon, Korea.  Ravi shared about how God weaves the threads of our lives to create a grand design for his glory.  From his own life experience, he gave the following story of how God works in ways that we can hardly understand;

In 1971, while he was a seminary student, was invited to speak in a conference in Canada.  In that conference, he met a missionary lady who invited him to come to Vietnam and minister for the three months of that summer there.  When Ravi hesitated due to the lack of finances, the lady said "God will provide".  To make things clearer, Ravi said, "I am not just talking about the travel expenses; I am talking about my school fee for the next semester because if I join the mission team, I won't be able to make the money to pay for my next semester school fees".  The lady again said, "God will provide".  Lo and behold, a lady that Ravi never knew from New York sent him 3600$ to cover his travel expenses and the next semester's school fees.  Ravi sent her the thank you note, went to Vietnam, graduated from school and went on to become one of the greatest Christian Apologists of our generation, but never again heard from the lady.

About five or six years ago, a letter with crooked writings came to the office of the RZIM headquarter in Atlanta Georgia saying "Is this the same Ravi Zacharias that I sent 3600$ in 1971?  I heard him speak in a Radio and if this is the same man, I am very glad that I had the chance of investing in his life".  Ravi attempted to find out who this person might be, and found out that this was a person who had suffered with polio and was bound to a wheelchair.

Think about how God uses our hearts and talents.  Think about this lady who sacrificially sent her money to a person she never knew and never bothered to know what he would do with her money.  She gave it and gave it as if unto the Lord and today, Ravi is by far one of the best communicators of the gospel of Jesus Christ to the intellectual masses around the world.  So, when you do something for God, when you give something for God, when you sacrifice something for God, don't brag about it.  Just let your left hand not know what you gave from your right hand and God will see that it accomplishes his purpose.