Well, here’s something one of my long lost dear fr…
Well, here’s something one of my long lost dear friend shared while in denmark for an exchange program:
This week, I am amazed by a very simple truth.
God is faithful even when we are faithless.
How many of you have stopped praying about something because it has been left unanswered?
I have stopped praying for so many things in my life, perhaps out of disappointment, or I’ve grown tired, or maybe because I’ve become faithless in those things. I think my heart is tired of breaking over and over again, so I left the pieces in a place that used to be my heart, and carried on with life. Careening through blindly, sometimes taking God’s hand, but not letting Him come closer.
Then a few days ago, I felt this overwhelming surge of homesickness. Not homesickness for Singapore. (or London) It is a strange displaced feeling that I have carried through for as long as my memory could serve. I am homesick for my home where God’s presence graces. I remembered my favourite Sonic Flood song “Better Is One Day” and was led to find Psalm 27 and Psalm 84. I didn’t know whether anything was going to change. But I know I was reminded of our final rest stop in this journey through life.And then yesterday, I came home to find an email from my Dad with some assurances and some updates from home. And in his postscript, he told me something that I am ashamed to say that I gave up praying for. After all these years, he started going back to Church!
Oh dear friends, God began taking the broken pieces of my heart and fitting them back together before I asked. He is faithful even when I am faithless.
I don’t know if He would heal all my wounds all at once. I think there are some griefs that He will leave for a while more. But I am still so touched by His faithfulness. And like a child who fell off her bicycle whilst learning how to ride through life, crying in the gutter, thinking that no one will rescue her until her Father comes and picks her up so genlty you can almost hear Him sigh at her pain, and He looks at her and pokes her cheek to make her smile again - I try to ride through life again with a renewed hope to please my Father.
I don’t know if I made much coherence because I have a habit of shooting off multiple tangents.
If you have lost faith in some things that you have been seeking God about, here’s your sister to poke you (gently of course), and remind you that our Father is faithful even when we are faithless. And He will mend our broken hearts.
hmm.. so forthose of you who’ve stopped praying or long forgotten something, God’s still faithful!