Post by SMILLY - ADVISER on Oct 4, 2006 10:01:28 GMT -5
It was 2 hours to the new year i.e 9 something pm as i got to my friends room .''Hey dude ,long time no see", he saluted."Oh yeah, been a little busy, got some book loads to discard and it was a week since i did that". "oh sure,me too'',the guy continued.
But i was not about to backoff with my objectives.i knew i needed him to join in the cross-over prayer to usher the new year.So i got my mind through to him,"i am on my way to the park and i needed you to come with me if you dont mind,.There will be some night vigil as we see the old year off,and its great to begin a new year on such note.I did the same last year and i want to do it a gain today, i continued.
"Hmm,well i should like to think myself out of that coz i'm no godly man,i like to have myself follow my heart and that is the reason i must go for the ball and jiggy the night away",was his answer.
So i decided to ask him why it shouldnt be prayers but dance ,afterall he had danced often and never taken a while in church.I tried and assured him that life was afterall terminable and that happens without any iota of our knowledge.Further, humanity was afterall a minature of the bigger picture of what the universal family is , Father God on whom we all desire to depend and mankind on the other end.
Afterall why were children from dysfunctional family backgrounds so maladjusted than those with normal upbringing?.Doesnt that have to do with lack of dependency on a superior ,the nature of our earthly fathers or any eldery person.Such void never wanes as we incessantly yearn to have a fulfilment of that parental love even when we are fully grown up.
I pressed further to remind him that if parental love and care was such a big factor, how about God who is the architect of everything we think we have. Wasn't he more deserving of respect than everything we call security, satisfaction and pleasure.Anyhow i only wanted the messege across to him and no more.So i turned over to ask if he were still going to the dance as earlier arranged.
I was supprised to hear what my ears gathered.Believe you me, i had a reason to smile and thank myself for coming quite on time.The fella had decided to drink himself crazy so he could get dutch courage to commit suicide.He really wanted to die after all he had no family to hold to, no one to call a relation ,even his girlfriend was becoming incresingly impatient with him because he never seemed real and was a clawn of sorts.
I began to feel the heart renting pain as he plunged deeper to pull a side the tunics that covered his real self and told me,i wonder what my life would be in 3 hours from now had you not come around.I'm sure you wold not have had the chance to chat with me again.Anyhow im not calling off everything i had thought good,but for now i will need you around whether to the dance or the vigil because i dont think i can carry myself along anymore.
I was so alarmed that i wondered why i had to be in his room at such a time but after careful thought i discovered ,it was no mere coincidence but God's plan to let him have a nother moment in the new year.
I then asked myself what would have happened had i not shown up that time?
??.For that reason i thanked God for his goodness and mercy toward mankind.And i begun the new year with thanks giving,"FATHER THANKYOU FOR EVERYONE OF US,WHETHER IN PAIN OR JOY, BECAUSE YOU ARE SO GOOD AND LOVING....
The next day when i met my friend ,he was even amazed at himself and the way he wanted his life terminated.
If only he followed his heart!!
Friends its one thing to follow the leading of our hearts and another to allow God in our circumstances.Paul emphasizes the need to allow the peace of God to reign in us even in situations which are bad,because only then can we be able to do his very will.
Phil4:6-8
6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
8 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.
With that in mind , one should stress the need to anchor in the power given us by the spirit ,for the strengthening of ou faith so that being rooted in love we may be able to fathom the love of christ that surpuses all understanding.
Eph 3:16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.