I am a millennial who rarely uses cash, so I might be behind the times on this one. But I heard this week about the “coin shortage” going on across the United States right now. Business are having trouble giving change because there just aren’t enough coins in circulation at the moment. And as I read about why, it turns out it’s not because production of coins is down. The U.S. Mint ramped up production this month. The problem has much more to do with the fact that 83% of the coins needed across our economy come from being recirculated by people doing everyday business.
It’s not that the coins aren’t there. We just have to trust that they’ll appear again. Our coins themselves even tell us who to trust (just look what’s next to the picture of Washington on a quarter!). Paul said in his prayer for the Ephesians “Now to him who by the power at work within us is able to accomplish abundantly far more than we can ask for or imagine, to him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.”God’s still here too. There’s plenty of his presence in circulation. Even in seeming scarcity and shortage we can trust in God’s abundance.
