‘New’!

This is a post I found today when trying to clear my Documents folder. This is apparently one I had drafted in April 2013, a whole year back! Not sure, why I never posted it.

April 7, 2013 – A friend recently mentioned in a conversation that if you read the bible and see the works of God, the ways God worked, it was never something that a rational man can explain. So she said “if that’s how God works, why should I pray for only stuff that makes sense to me, why shouldn’t I pray for extraordinary things in my life?”. And it reminded me of a conversation I had with Mr. a few days before the falling out.

He asked me why I expected better or prayed for better in our lives, why couldn’t we just be happy with what we have. I remember saying what i honestly felt that its because we don’t serve a God who just gives us exactly what we see in front of our eyes. In my experience, He is so merciful that He grants desires of our hearts, beyond what we can see. He makes provisions for things so that when we desire it, it’s ready and available at the right time, all we need to do is ask. He may grant this to us even though we have done nothing to deserve His mercy, but we do need to ask our Father, and if it His will, He will work for us.

Miracle points: Getting a job by God’s help alone, My job posting in Bangalore, My final year B/tech results, my travel to US and so many seemingly small stuff – in all these I had certain desires, I didn’t fast and pray specifically for those desires but in quiet moments I remember saying “God, this is what I’d like, but if it is Your will only, make it happen, I would be honored to have it!”.
And He was so kind, and gracious, so miraculous in His ways, that i knew it was all Him, nothing because of my goodness or talent.

I realized that if our parents who would unselfishly give us what they can if it made us happy and if they could, Wouldn’t our Heavenly Father lovingly grant us our desires, if we are humble and honest in our desires? I feel He would.

But we would still need to ask (even if just in your own hearts), and we need to be prepared that He may ask us to step out of the safe zone, to take a chance. Would you do it, would you ask, would you risk stepping out of the safe zone if only to let Him work?

July 10, 2014 – I did, and today I can boldly say, I am ready for the next chapter in my life!

Right now, there is a lot of things in motion in my life, feels like a whirlwind but I can feel God’s hands over me because I am not overwhelmed by the many changes and the worries of the uncertainty each change could possibly bring. I can feel God is doing something big in my life, carving out my life to what He wants it to be. I have no idea what lies ahead, all I know is it will beautiful because I know He is already there!

There’s this song I recently heard which sums up exactly how I feel sometime. Give it a hear, hope you are blessed too. It’s this absolutely fab song by Casting Crowns ‘Already There’. Enjoy, God bless!