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(Day 1) - Of Reminders & Phonecalls Labels: Surprise Me God experiment
Today is the first day of what is said in a really loud and excited voice, 'Surprise Me, God' experiment.
I got out of bed with this mounting sense of Something's Gonna Happen feeling. Like, God whispers "I've got a surprise for yooouu" and then flounces away laughing. In all honesty, I was looking forward to some miraculous sign happening.
I speak some edifying message, a chance to ensure a stranger's salvation, fish falling out of the sky...
I got reminders straight to the heart instead.
And it sure was a surprise; albeit a thought-provoking one.
I got an sms today, and was given a choice to have a conversation with a person. A conversation that I've been putting off and would have given some excuse to put off once again, if not for a nudging that seemed to say, "What if it's part of your Surprise Me experiment?". I called the person even though I felt that it wasn't the right time. What I expected to be a chore turned out to be a reminder in love. It was a 'That wasn't so bad as I initially thought it would be' moment. The circumstance was bound to happen sooner or later, and God just decided it should be sooner.
Later on today, I had another reminder in love.
This one was painful.
During a keyboards session, we were reminded to pray for those who have not yet come to know a God that just wants to love us individually as His own. I tried to think of one, but all I seem to get was my family instead. And that was hard. How do you approach the ones you love who are believers themselves, but just do not seem to realise that they're stuck somewhere in the middle. Neither moving forward nor back. Just seeming content with where they are - lukewarm.
I've fallen out of the habit of praying for them, it was a reminder for me to snap back into attention once more. Have you fallen out of the habit of keeping your loved ones in prayer as well? It's never too late. Until it's too late, of course.
