Something that I learned – Darrell Burnett

There is this one song that the Wilds put out a few years ago. The chorus goes “Your will cannot lead me where your grace will not keep me.” This has been true ever since I got here at Crown. I have always struggled to pay off my school bill. You know as well as I do that the rules here at Crown state that you have to have your school bill paid down to 250 dollars or less in order to take your finals. Roughly, one third of the school bill payment comes from working on work scholarship in the kitchen, and other third by working at Cracker Barrel (aka, The Crack House).
I have only been able to pay off about two thirds of my bill, and yet with this rule in effect, I have been able to take all my semesters on time. Truly, this is an amazing tale on how God paid off my school bill for me. What I could not do, He has done for me. The first two semesters God just worked in miraculous ways, including a $1000 tip one night. After this, I thought my luck was ended.
Then there was a third semester here at Crown. I had serious doubts that God can take care of my school bill again. After all, He already took care of two of them, and the average Crown student only gets about one. What are the odds that I will go for three in a row? About a few weeks later, I get a phone call from Mrs. Petterly. She said that the remaining balance of my school bill was taken care of. I still don’t know how it was, but I was able to take my finals on time.
Now I am in a fourth semester here. Again, I am in the same situation I have always been in. This time, God is currently supplying is in a different way. Some family that goes to Temple wanted to help a student out by making payments with them, and my name came up. I find it very interesting that God has not supplied my school bill in the same manner at all. Every time, it has been through some other means, but all with the same outcome, God did it! Just like how Jesus did his miracles. When He healed the blind, one time He touched their eyes, another time He spit in them, and a third time He spit on the ground and put that mud over the eyes and told the person to wash. Truly, God is good all the time, and as that song goes, “His will cannot lead [us] where His grace will not keep [us].”