Take it to the Bank

My youngest daughter – Leah – is finishing up her student teaching and will soon graduate from college. (Her parents are both rejoicing!) She has been working and learning in a classroom full of second-graders. Recently she called to share with us something one of her students said. His mother asked if he thought Leah was doing a good job. He told his mom, “She’s a good teacher, and you can take that to the bank.”  Who knows where kids pick up phrases like that!

Just a few days after Leah shared that story with me, one of the email devotions I receive had this in it:  A pastor once said, “If God has promised it, you can go to the bank with it.”  I have lived long enough under God’s grace to know there are no coincidences. This was very much what my wife likes to call “a God thing.” The same phrase that brought us laughter also gives us the assurance that we can place our absolute confidence in God to take care of all our needs.  He who did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up for us all–how will He not also, along with Him, graciously give us all things? (Romans 8:32)  And you can take that to the bank!