I will follow you

One of my friends and I were going to SP Road and as he doesn’t know the way, he was following my scooter on his Bullet :) When we are almost close and the turning is a little complex because of few more turnings there, I started explaining him how to go. Even before I completed it he said ‘I will follow you’.

That is how it started this chain of thoughts. Wondered how confidently he said that. How easily he was able to trust me and believe I can guide his path to the destination. Yeah there are levels of trust again that you can put in a friend but at least here I seem to qualify for this one :) 

To see some negative thinking, What if the person you trust cheats or robs, or if he is taking advantage of the situation and you are at loss? Well we don’t think this way when we are with friends because of the trust and belief we put in them. A Friend being human vulnerable to all kind of negative and wrong things, if we can trust so much and follow……

God the creator and the sustainer of my existence, the potter of my life, the one that never changes asks to follow Him… Hmm I think I want to be on my own and I can take care. Many a time after saying ‘I will follow you’, I don’t really seem to be following. Lack of faith? Loss of trust? Can’t believe He can?  

So is it true that we trust our friends more than God? If no, then is it possible to leave your life and everything related, trusting Him and follow Him in the same way as you do with your friends or with dearest best friend?

Doesn’t seem practical right? Yeah I too feel the same sometimes or rather it is most of the times.

But the fact remains that I am wrong during those times. 

Pary God that He gives me enough strength to believe, trust and have faith. 

Thank you Ashish for the inspiration.  

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Hallelujah Christmas Cruise

It is so often we miss to notice how things happen beyond what we can imagine or think of. Ever wondered how they do happen and who makes it happen? We do feel happy of the good that happens, enjoy it but most of the times fail to identify who made it happen. I sometimes try to look into it. Hallelujah Christmas Cruise play at KMC last Sunday is one of it.

I was part of the sound team for the play. The hired microphones were supposed to come at 11:30 am, so after morning service I took a break went out and came back but no trace of microphones and the wait went on. 3:30 pm the kids have started the final rehearsal still no trace. Usually we make the final rehearsal with sound so that we can tune the system and with kids it always difficult and now don’t even have that opportunity to do. There were instances where even after the trial, things went bad. Around 4:45 pm the hired ones came but with out cables and batteries. This made my worries and irritations rise which started due to the delay and no responses from the concerned people for hiring.

Though things I have to work with are now there, I was not really sure how I am going to make that to work with only those. Just sat down there not knowing what to do, the kids doing the rehearsal on one side and everyone waiting for the sound to come and me not having a clue how to make it work. And no time to get any things that is required. The vendors stopped picking up calls. We had been through this many times and we know how miraculously God worked, but this time it seemed hopeless. Sitting there I just asked one question “God! Are you going to make this happen?” “I am going to try my best, rest is Yours” This was my final say and started to put things together.

Added to this the other team mates who were supposed to come after lunch turned up late and there it went ….. Lost my cool and shouted at them. It was 5:20 pm when we started working with no sound and I know nothing other than a miracle can run the show with sound. And tough job connecting, setting it up, and coordinating with people for the small things required and the loose contacts making things worse in between. Things started falling in place, great ideas from the team and it’s just running around noting on the mind other than to make things work. Don’t remember how many times we sent people out to buy stuff that we need. And its 6:00pm YES! we can hear sound :). I just couldn’t believe myself that we did it in such short time and things started falling in place. I can’t believe it even now that we did it.  Just paused to recollect how things were half an hour back and I realized that we have the same assurance to remind Who is in control. Now I know Who worked for it and Who is working with us all the time.

Though we can hear the sound, it was pretty bad and people already started complaining. I just assured them that it will be better when it starts just cause of the miracle that had happened and knowing how things progressed I can say that :) . I left before it started, with the peace that “He brought it till here and the rest He will take care and it is going to happen”.

Thanks for the sound team and the team work that made this happen.

Came to know later that it was much better than the time I left.

Thank you LORD for being so faithful.

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