Mysterious Ways

Ok, its time for a God moment.
(for those of you who don't know what God moments are, they are moments when God does something extra special in your life, such as a miracle, speaking to you, or something else a bit out of the ordinary)

After church on Sunday night, I came home to find a random guy in our lounge. Not that this is too unusual, because my brother often brings people around who I don't know, but it turned out this was a truly random guy. My brother and his friends had been playing the drums, and this guy, walking past, heard them and came in to have a go himself.

Anyway, I arrived home and got talking with him (his name was Daniel) and found out he is in to producing music, specifically drum and bass. He asked me whether I played music, so I played some piano for him, and then he said, "Hey, did you used to live in....?" Following this, he began to sing a jingle I had made up in primary school for a project on advertising!

Surprise! This random guy just happened to go to primary with me for a few years, and still remembered how I had talked with him about God back then! In fact, although a non-Christian, he often thought of God, and had just the night before been thinking even more seriously about him. Following that, God brought him to our house, back to the person who had previously shared with him!

There is so much more to the story as well: the fact that he was about to move to Wellington to live, and so would never have caught up with me again, the visions he has seen of 'higher authorities' bidding for him (see Ephesians 6:12), his passion to amount to something...

We sat and talked until about 11pm, and he came for dinner the next night as well, and although he didn't make a commitment to Jesus because of it, he is so much closer! I also have his cellphone number now so that I can keep in touch with him, and he can talk to me again if he wants to.

But isn't that just like God? He cares enough for us that he would arrange such an unbelievable series of co-incidences just to remind us that he is real and that he wants the best for us.

God works in mysterious ways!

Wasting Time with Pointless Predictions

Now that June has rolled around, I'm having to think a lot more about what I'm doing when my Bible College course finally finishes at the end of the year.
Its a question I've been able to avoid for three years, and to finally face up to it is quite daunting.

As I have mentioned earlier, I'm beginning to feel unsettled, and have been wondering if I'm even going to be here next year, but spending too much time on this has actually had negative results for me. I've become so distracted looking at what the future might bring that I haven't been focussing enough on the present.

Paul reminds us to run the race so as to win the prize, but someone pointed out to me recently that I got tangled in one of the last hurdles. Words of wisdom: no one remembers how you start the race, they remember how you finish.

God has it all in control. If I can stop worrying about the future, he'll make sure that my present takes me there.