Today we just heard a wonderful message by Pastor Voon, Chairman of EE Malaysia challenging us to go out and share the gospel. When Tim and I stood up to respond to the message, we did not know that the opportunity would come so soon.
Right after service, I had to rush Amanda, our youngest daughter to take her bus to Sg Petani. You see, she is currently in her foundation year at AIMST University in Kedah and she was going back after her short holiday in KL which began last Friday.
The traffic was horrendous, the sun was beating mercilessly and I was sweating profusely trying to squeeze the car past the big buses and other impatient vehicles when the engine just stopped on me in the middle of the road!
Horror or horrors, no matter how much I tried to turn the key, the engine gave this miserable 'click' 'click' sound and the picture of the car battery emerged flickering on the dashboard! I prayed, I laid hands on the steering wheel but the sound did not go away. Sighing, I managed to push the car to a less obstructive place at the side of the road and called my hubby to help.
I was upset, sweating, dirty and wishing for the cool comfort of my house and I was just about to grumble and complain and maybe even give my husband a piece of my mind for not checking on the battery the last time the car was sent for service, when the Holy Spirit spoke to me quietly "In everything give thanks".
Chagrined, I immediately said sorry to the Lord and began to pray in tongues and gave thanks. However I continued to ask God for a miracle i.e to repair the car battery for me! Nevetheless,I have come to realise that there are certain reasons why answers to my prayers are often withheld....one of them being that God is more interested in the development of my character, the moulding of my attitude and the building of something in me during the waiting period!
And wait we did...we waited from 4 pm to 7 pm...by that time we had taken several drinks, ate a roti tissue, gone to the toilets and the bus terminal to look around...still no sign of the mechanic. It was then Tim suddenly realised that a young Indian girl had also been waiting for the same period as us. Judging from her belongings, we could only guess that she was waiting for someone to fetch her. Tim struck up a conversation with her and halfway through he suddenly then turned to me and said "Go and share with her"!
Huh?...me share with her? I don't even know her, what if she rejected me. Her parents surely would not approve of her talking to strangers....no not me...you share with her, I told my hubby. Suddenly my husband got up and pushed me closer to her and said "My wife has something to share with you". In this kind of situation I had no choice but to do the only thing I knew to do, I quickly took out my 4 spiritual laws and shared with her the Gospel from the first page to the last. She did not reject me when I showed her the diagrams of man separated from God by sin and of Jesus being the bridge between God and man....in fact her face lit up when I asked her if she wanted Jesus to sit on the throne of her heart. She agreed and prayed the prayer of salvation on her own!
Then I realised that it was only yesterday when I felt led of the Lord to put the NT in my handbag. I quickly took out my little Bible, gave it to her and asked her to read the Gospel of John. Even when we drove the car away after the mechanic had replaced the battery, I saw her taking the Bible and reading it!
It was a truly amazing end to an amazing day! God can turn an otherwise 'miserable' day to a victorious one when we learn to give thanks!
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