There's a new guy at work. He just appeared one day. He was as I was when I first began to work there - clueless and making many mistakes. I overheard some of my co-workers talking about him. They were telling me that I "may have met my match." They said he was a preacher! He preached at his Church and he has saved many individuals at his school. I couldn't even sense that he was a man of God when I first passed him by, it was weird. It is false what they said. He's no match for me because this isn't a competition or anything - it's like a race with no finish line, as long as you have the strength to run you have won and there's no point to beating anyone because neither they nor you can win and the design of the race was made that way by the manager of the race, the Almighty. So he and I are both sponsored by God. Does that make us competition or rivals of any kind? No! That makes closer still. Obviously, he was put there for a reason. They all are. There are no mistakes and no mishaps in life - there is only synchronicity. God placed that guy here for some reason and obviously I can learn something from him! I don't know my own strength - I have such strong faith in God that I don't know its limits and I'm still learning. If this man has helped save people's souls in the name of my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, then I want to know how he does it! Even I haven't done such a thing yet, and I've been hoping to. My troubles with Nidya. I was trying to get her to come to my side. To be where I am on the path that leads to Salvation, but I failed in even that! If I can learn from this man how he has been doing this, then maybe I can touch people's lives - which is what I've wanted to do ever since God gave me this unimaginable feeling inside. I've wanted to share it with other people. I was helping him with his mistakes yesterday and I did some running for him when I was free from customers because it was his first day on register. I was hoping that we would have concurrent break time so that I could have a chance to talk to him, but it didn't happen. But today, I was leaving and I was in the break-room. I put my cup of lemonade-fruit-punch in my locker so that I could pick it up next week and took out my Calculus and Bible to go home. Arturo was giving one of the girls from box a topless lap dance and Jose walked in and missed it. I told him what had happened and he had a shocked expression on his face as he clocked in. Then I said..."Better not let Jose see - he's a man of God like me" I clocked out and he asked me if I was leaving and I told him yes. I followed him out and down the hall and he was looking at me and he asked me if I went to Church. I sort of shyed away from the question and then he said, "You're not a man of God!" He thought I was just joking around, I suppose it's because I always have a smile on my face and had a wider smile when I made that previous comment. So he couldn't sense that I was a servant of the Lord either. So I replied and said, "I may not go to Church, but I read my Bible every day," and showed him the Holy Bible that I was carrying as proof. Immediately he shook my hand! He's just like me! Truly! I've always truly believed that God created each and every one of us in uniquely in his own image and that he loves us all equally because we are all like him! This man was like me! A man of God and a man of God's words. And what impressed me was that he wasn't boastful and he didn't mention that he was a preacher or another man of God or anything, I suppose he knew that I knew, but he humbles himself as I humble myself. If this man is here and he's steered even one person's life in the right direction, then there is hope! I can do it, too! As soon as I get back to school tomorrow, I wont look at those people as unrighteous people! I will see them as the sick. God can cure what ails these people through me, his servant. The Jesus in me could be like the doctor to these people. For Jesus says: "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. But go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice.' For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners." Matthew 9:12-13 This is the verse that assured me that my choice of future career was in spiritual balance - Jesus was like a doctor to the unrighteous and he healed his people and performed miracles. In order to live my life in the path that Jesus made, I must also do these things. This is so ironic because I am in the medical magnet program at school! It is these moments that make you double your faith! When you read God's words with understanding and seek out in your life to understand the meaning behind these words! It is truly amazing.
posted by: Isaac (reply)
post date: 10.12.03 (8:10 pm)
Reply to: spartacus007
What led you to this conclusion?
posted by: dhsmeg87 (reply)
post date: 11.14.03 (1:14 pm)
You know that the same one who taught him how to save people will teach you too right? He doesn't do it in any special or different way, it's the way God told him too. And don't feel so bad about not having saved anyone yet, I haven't either (still prayin it will be soon though) Cya. peace and love. In Christ
~Meme~
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