SOME DISAPPOINTMENTS GIVE BIRTH TO APPOINTMENTS
In our world of instants, human beings enjoy quick and smooth drive and affair. We love instant foods, coffee, relationship and of course an instant God we could jump start anytime or who answers without or before we ask. That sounds familiar, isn’t it? We hate failures, delays, waiting, disappointments and pains. The advancement in technology has not helped matters. We want cars that can be electronically driven with robots; relationship that your spouse just agrees with everything and accedes to every of your request without thinking or having any say. But we soon discover in a real life situation, that is not only impossible but ‘impossicant.’ As we walk through the paths of life we experience some ups and downs; drive through the cities of our Nation, we meet stop signs, slow down, bump, fast lane and wrong way, no entry, etc. Do these say anything to us?
God speaks and deals with us through words and events. Sometimes, He allows us to go through events or situations or even delays to cause us to pause or slow down and perhaps halt. We stop to ponder whether we are on the right track or have derailed; whether we allow self and worldliness to possess a great deal of our thoughts and actions. Most times we get buried in the crowd and loose trend of who we are and our goals. However God has ways of telling us that the bulk stops at His desk; He is in charge and shall be for eternity. He created mankind after He made heaven and earth and all that is in it. We did not create ourselves and cannot steer our lives. We may not know why God allows some delays, some disappointments, and some pains on our ways. Some disappointments give birth to appointments, if only one could stay on course of obedience and trust in God.
Just ponder with me: why did God delayed the birth of Samuel and John the Baptist? Why did He allow David, son of Jesse and Joseph, the son of Jacob to be last born and yet He elevated their status in life to become King of Israel and Prime Minister in Egypt respectively. Who would believe that Jeph’thah, the Gileadite, son of a harlot earlier rejected by his brethren and denied his inheritance later became one who was desired and invited to become the captain of the army to fight their enemies. Who would ever have believed that the son of a Kenyan student who came to America and work in Restaurants would grow to take the highest oath in the North American Nation and become the 44th President of United States of America? With God, all things are possible.
In Our Daily Manna, of February 28, 2009, Rev. Dr Chris E. Kwakpovwe wrote on the title: God works through little circumstances! He referred to the deadly terrorist’s attacks on American on September 11, 2001 and how survivals narrowly escaped the deadly attacks on that fateful day: The M.D. of a company survived that day because his son started Kinder Garden and so he took the child to school. Another branched in to fetch doughnuts to share with her colleagues. The other person was held in traffic jam and another simply missed his bus. Yet one spilled food on her clothes and had to take time to change, the other person’s car just wouldn’t start and even more another went back to answer the telephone and so on. He summed up: so, God can use delay to delay your death! It could as well be that the one minute delay can result to an hour of great gain or even eternity.
When we complain and grumble over little delays, little sorrows, little disappointments and little mishaps that befall us, we loose sight of the blessings [unusual surprises] God uses those situations /events to bring to us. God sees the end from the beginning and does everything for our good purpose. He allows the little pains for greater gain, little sorrow for a greater joyful end. God loves us and cares about us even when we are unaware of it. His compassion compels Him to seek our good, protect and preserve us. As we enter this new season of refreshment we should reflect on fact that God knows what He’s doing; thank Him in and for everything. We may not like life’s challenges as we face them; just as we don’t understand the outcome but the gain is more than and worth the pains. Therefore stop complaining, grumbling, murmuring and sorrowing but rather trust God for who He is and who He will continue to be.
Reach: Evangelist Ogbonnaya, Godswill at: weefreeministries@yahoo.com or P.O. Box 720035, Houston, Texas, 77272.