So this morning something actually really ordinary happened but it gave me an ‘Aha!’ moment (as Oprah would put it). So on my lil table in my room, where I keep my random stuff like my contacts, my Kindle , my cell and occasionally a morning coffee etc., I had this waste paper that my dress came in from the dry cleaners & for like a week I keep thinking I should throw it out but never got to it. And today, I made my coffee and placed it on the table, on this paper as I started to get ready for church. Somehow I lost my balance while slipping my jeans on and ended up pushing against the table which led the coffee to spill. But luckily it had fallen on this paper and so i was spared of a stained table. And the thought that came to me was ‘Wow, it’s like that paper was there the whole week just for this one moment to cover my clumsiness!’. And it hit me, that’s exactly what God does in our lives right.
Think about it, a lot of times, the stuff that happens in our life never makes sense at the moment. But then one day, something happens and you realize that whatever that happened, it was all for this one moment for it all to make sense. Wow!
So today at church, my pastor mentioned that God sometimes takes us out of a place, a comfort zone of sorts just so He can prepare you for something greater. I couldn’t help but think that this is what happened to me. I was in this place emotionally where I could not find joy in the little things, because I had this little crosses pulling me down and getting me discouraged. And it really took God displacing me from my life as I knew it, to rediscover life and to renew myself in the joy that only God can give me. The beauty is that this joy is displaced from my circumstance because I have this assurance that no matter whatever color life takes, I have the One by my side always and forever. A phrase pastor said that just struck a chord in my heart – ‘Do not be bound by the memories of your yesterdays, but live on the promises of the tomorrows!’
So thankful that now I hear God’s voice, so many times a whisper in my heart, sometimes in the form of my parents or even my friends (non believer ones at that), encouraging me to keep faith and pray. I have had friends and colleagues tell me that they see my face glow with happiness and how I am cheerful always, and I can’t help but think that it is truly God’s amazing grace that does that. Oh, feeling so blessed.
And let me tell you secret, I feel a stirring in my heart, I feel like a breakthrough is coming, like God is working towards that spilled coffee moment in my life where I realize that this mess was all to prepare me for this one moment where I know exactly what He was doing.
Leaving with a humorous picture I came across that I can relate to, especially on those Monday mornings you just don’t want to get out of bed 🙂
God bless you all!
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