Recently, my wife and I stopped to purchase gas for our vehicle. Close to the fueling stations was a Walmart Neighborhood Market. My wife wanted to go to the Walmart and pick up a few things. I also wanted to go into the store while she was shopping. I spotted a lady in the grocery aisle and I walked up to her. I could see she had very little in her grocery basket. She had some bottled water and she was looking at some cream cheese in one of the aisles. I approached her by saying, "Boy, these food prices are high." She immediately responded by telling me the price that eggs had now risen to. As mentioned in my previous lesson, The Christmas Angel, I had some of my handmade angels with me, so I pulled them out and offered her an angel. She immediately responded by giving glory to God. Thanking God that He had sent an angel to remind her of His faithfulness to her and her daughter.

She then began to pour out her heart to me. She was a Spanish speaking lady possibly from Mexico, who was a single mom with a 14 year old daughter. She had no work and was struggling to pay her basic necessities. I probed her a little bit about what her basic needs were and then before our conversation ended I pulled out my billfold and gave her a quite large amount of money. She wanted to give me a hug, but more than that to praise the God of heaven that had just met her need of daily necessities for her and her daughter. She was not a homeless person with a sign on the street, she was a hard working woman that fell on hard times and was left to support her and her daughter. And then God showed up to meet her needs. I can't tell you the thankfulness of her heart and the expression on her face as God was meeting her needs. There is a scripture in Matthew chapter 5 and verse 16 that states,
This story that I'm telling you today is not about me or even this woman and her daughter, but it's about the glory that our heavenly Father will receive when we walk in the good works that He has ordained that we walk in each and every day. Ephesians 2:10 tells us that we are God's workmanship created in Christ Jesus to do good works that God has ordained that we should walk in (Ephesians 2:10).

The reason that I am sharing this story today is because God said that we were to provoke one another to show love and to show good works (Hebrews 10:24).

In Matthew chapter 25, Jesus said I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink (Matthew 25:35). And by doing this to the least of one of my children, you in reality did it unto Me (Matthew 25:40).

So the title today, "I saw Jesus at Walmart", is expressing the truth that in reaching out to meet this woman and her daughter's need, that in reality I was doing this to Jesus.