Seriously, have you ever thought about how you can hear God speak? Well, I've always learned that God chooses to speak to us through His scripture, our mentors, our friends, our pastors delivering the spoken faith on the pulpit every Sunday etc. But what about directly?
It's the 28th (I know i'm posting this late) and another Thursday evening late at work. My mobile's alarm rang to remind me of the "Discovering Chile" talk our Church will be conducting by our Hope Santiago team. It's already 7pm and I'm still in the office,' Man, i'm so tired, maybe i should just head home and take a rest!' The whole week had simply been balancing the 'renovation vs work' scale! What colors, which laminate, how to best place the sofa, kitchen, bedroom, air-con, and the whole lot!! It was wearing me down but somehow, somewhere inside of me wanted to go to this presentation so I went.
As i stepped into the small Europe room in Nexus, i saw barely a handful of about 10 of us and everybody seem prepared to come and expect something. As for me, I was simply there just to find out more, no commitments huh! But something struck me, and it struck me at my most unprepared state of mind.
God spoke.
Nowadays, i tend to not use those 2 words together so lightly. If i were a pastor, or Church elder, Yes, but I'm not so....... On a personal note, I've always though that God would come to me with waves of thunder & lightning with all His glorious fury speaking in a deep bassy James Earl Jones voice.
Well, in my case, He didn't. What He did was quite characteristic of Him, He 'squeezed' my heart (the most sensitive part of me). Now, imagine with me in a room with 10 complete strangers singing a medley of songs in a completely different language "Spanish", would you have had a faster heart-beat. 'Yes', i would, i thought. But in fact, the heartbeat grew faster. I could literally feel it pounding "thump... thump" beat for beat, regular but heavy and yet......... reassuring, secured and warm (not those cold cardiac arrest feeling).
After singing and worshiping God in Spanish, we sat down and Pui See started sharing all things Chile. As I wasn't seriously paying attention, i asked God,
'Are You sure?'
'I mean ARE You really SURE this is the place You want me to go??' I reasoned
'It's so far away from home!' I thought.
As you would have guessed, my heart kept pounding away like an earth-moving pillar driver pounding the foundations into the ground.
Then, before you know it, the session ended and Christine have reach the little Europe room we were in and started chatting to Pui See and David. We talked about their plans, the working prospects there and other unimportant things.
After that night, the following two week will never be the same!
