Let's
All be an instrument of Peace!
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Everywhere
- In any condition
- At any time |
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Peacemakers
who sow in peace raise a harvest of righteousness.
James
3:18
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When
things seem to go wrong
Peace!
Last week, I had a very challenging week. The reason being, I missed a
long time awaited opportunity (in my eyes). I prayed about it, though,
the way I wanted it to be. My prayer was like “God you know I am
going to do this, I need your help, so be with me.” I did not even
ask Him to speak to me about the situation. Who knows, what if He does
not affirm my plan. I just was not ready to hear His advice incase it
is not as what I wanted it to be. So I went, and the result was opposite
to what I expected. Who am I going to blame for the case? God? Myself?
If you say it is me who has to be blamed, you are right; because I am
not immune from being blamed. I guess most of us have similar experiences
in our daily lives.
Most of the times, it is above our imagination to understand why God acts
the way He acts. Well, the Word of God says,
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my
ways," declares the LORD. "As the heavens are higher than the
earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your
thoughts.” (Isaiah 55: 8-9)
But why does God, some times, seem as if he is not listening to our prayers
or as if He does not care. I remember someone telling me about the wife
of the American preacher Billy Graham. She said, “If God had answered
all my prayers, I would have married to three other wrong men” It
is very striking. And I remember some one saying, “God does not
always answer by giving, He answers by refusing as well”
Let me tell you a story about a young lady and her father. The mother
of the lady died early when the girl was very young. The burden of taking
care of this young lady had fallen totally on her father. Her father was
a very nice man. He was a very loving, caring, understanding and can be
summed up as being a “perfect” father. This young lady was
also very intelligent. She graduated from a University when she was 21
years of age. She was lucky enough to get a good job and started earning
good salary.
One
day, after having a hectic working day, she told to herself, “let
me go to this recreation center and relax myself before I go back home.”
And she went. Luckily, she came to know a very nice man who was very caring
and understandable. Soon they become intimate friends, and she decided
to marry him in less than a month time. She went to her father and shared
her plans with him thinking he would be very happy. To her dismay, her
father refused her decision.
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