I like to discuss topics that “help” to change me, for the better.

My topic today is about the observation of people and why they behave the way they do.

I’m still puzzled about a lady’s behaviour I observed this morning.

I just saw her walk away and I am still wondering why…..

I am sitting in the Coffee Club right now.

When I feel stressed, I like to leave my home and go out and relax. That is precisely what I am doing now.

Next to me on another table, was a lady. She looked like she was waiting for her order to come. Sure enough it did, and as I looked over, I saw the waitress bring over her plate. It looked delicious. I saw toast and scrambled eggs. I imagined how much she would enjoy it. You know that feeling of satisfaction you have for other people, even though you haven’t eaten the eggs yourself?

But then something odd happened.

She stood up and simply walked away.

She left her full plate of food.

Did she eat a little bit?

I’m not sure as I obviously wasn’t staring at her. But when I looked at her table, after she left, the food was still sitting there and it looked untouched.

Why did she order it, pay for it, then simply leave?

Then shortly after, a man came to her table. I thought, “Maybe that is her husband and the eggs are for him.”

But they weren’t.

The man simply removed the plate and proceeded to sit down. He naturally thought the table was vacant. Which it was.

When I observed this refusal of such good food, I thought about how people refuse God’s free gifts.

Every day, He offers us good free food. Not literally like the scrambled eggs, but rather soul-food, that comes from His Word.

Jeremiah 31:3 – “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness.”

Every day, He sees human souls push away His free love.

Why?

Is it because God’s goodness feels too good to be true?

In this world, nobody believes in freebies!

We think, “If it’s free, it must be poor quality and second hand.”

So instead of accepting God’s free love, kindness and forgiveness, we choose to push Him away, because this sort of goodness, feels impossible and unreal.

Like an unimaginable perfect freebie!

But, what if you simply accepted God’s free gifts today, where you 100% knew it would not come back and bite you later?

These gifts are on the table for you today.

There is no evil catch, in God’s message of love for you.

God’s love is a free gift.

God’s grace is a free gift.

Jesus is a free gift.

I prayed for the lady who left the Coffee Club.

Did she receive some bad news and then had to leave?

Did she feel sick?

Whatever the reason, there was One, she always needed. Eggs or no eggs.

It was God.

Did she recognise she needed Him all the time?

I have no idea.

No matter how good or bad life is, one fact remains.

God’s love is 100% free.

You don’t need to pay Him back for anything.

Even if that lady’s eggs remained untouched on the table, if she walked out knowing God loved her and could help her in everything, this lesson would be the most important, even without the eggs being eaten.

Her story wasn’t about the eggs at all.

It’s the same for you and me.☺️