In you they trusted and were not disappointed. Psalm 22:5 (NIV)
Several years ago, inspired by a book I’d read, I made a list of thirty people I hoped to meet one day. The list was wide and varied, including writers, motivational speakers and celebrities. Amazingly, over the last several years, I’ve met eighteen people on that list. Some of them were everything I’d expected and others were major disappointments.
Not long ago, after one such disappointment, I was complaining to God about how disillusioned I’d been. Then God spoke to me in my heart: Debbie, you asked to meet these people and I’m happy to send them into your life, but I want you to make another list.
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“Another list?”
This time leave the spaces blank. I’m going to send thirty people into your life whom I want you to meet, and I promise you none of them will be a disappointment.
This prayer-time conversation has had a curious effect on me. Now, whenever I meet someone, I look at him or her with fresh eyes and wonder if this is one of the people God is sending into my life. I find that I’m more open, more receptive, waiting expectantly for those God wants me to meet. Since then, I’ve been blessed in countless ways. I’ve still got my original list, but it’s not nearly as important to me as the one God asked me to keep.
Father, thank You for the special people You have sent into my life. Not a single one has ever disappointed me.
