God Sighting | November 11, 2002

This is simply amazing and so great! I few months ago I had asked God to not allow me to instruct anyone anything from His word that I had not gladly and willfully obeyed. Within the past few days, I'd had a dilemma regarding driving my dad places. He recently had his license revoked, and was asking me to drive him to Palo Alto which took two and a half hours. He also asked me to then bring the carpool to school everyday at 7:20 AM, then on top of that, asked me to pick some lady up from the San Jose airport at 7:20 AM on a Sunday. Bringing him to Palo Alto was drudgery enough. No matter what I just couldn't seem to do it with much joy and gladness o the Lord at all. I was not having very good attitudes in my heart towards my dad. I was desperate for a word from the Lord to transform my ugly heart. So before I took a nap two days before writing this, I just opened the Bible to where my bookmark was, and as I began to read, my eyes crossed over His word to me: Delight in showing mercy. So I just begged God to put in me the desire to delight in showing mercy, and took a nap thereafter Later that night, I just asked God to give me a fresh, brand new start-to renew my love for Him once again. He answered, and that night I went to bed in repentance, shedding off all my guilt before Him. Basically today, with and only the help of the Lord working through a brother, I obeyed. To make a long story short, I received an email from Doug (the junior high youth pastor at the time) with the Sunday morning small group discussion outlines attached. The topic: OBEDIENCE! The Lord is truly sovereign over everything and I thank Him so much for reminding me about that,and for being faithful to what I had asked that was honoring to Him, even when I'd forgotten. Jesus, You are good all the time. Thank You Father, Most High. May my heart be fully Yours. Reign. Be the King of my life. Amen.