God Sighting | April 4, 2009

Being a Saturday, I had planned to spend the day with good friends. Toward 9PM or 10PM, I felt a strange (or rather, familiar) "prompting" to go and simply read the Bible at Mozart's cafe. I'll admit, I resisted. But the more I tried to brush it off, the more I sensed it was like God was beckoning me to just be still with Him. So, after deciding it would be better to go and see what God possibly had in store, instead of live my days wondering what I could have missed out on, I went.

Looking into the letter to the Galatian churches and Ephesian churches, my desire was for the Father to illuminate His word to me, that I would understand it, that I would know Him more. And so He did: line by line, paragraph by paragraph, idea by idea, truth by truth, wonder by wonder. 

Some friends stopped by and discussed some of the things I had been observing in these letters. After they left, I was approached by two young people, a guy and a gal, possibly 18 - 20. They mentioned how it was neat to see a young person so livid about the word of God, and that they were 'Jehovah's Witnesses.' "O God, give me the power to be Your witness in this moment," I prayed silently in earnest. Not knowing too much about the doctrine of a Jehovah's Witness, asked them about various points of what they believed, to which I was asked about how I came to my interest in the word of God. Scriptures and stories of the works of God in my life began pouring from my lips like hundreds of water drops falling from a tin roof during a rain--stories linked with scripture and scripture linked with stories, the glory of His power and goodness were the only things that I cared to share about in that moment, for the Kingdom of God is not a matter of talk, but power. Some time into the conversation, two older people, also a guy and a gal (both Jehovah's Witnesses), came and sat at my table. I brought up the subject of Jesus' deity, or lack thereof, in their view, to which opened up another door to show them the various instances in the Bible where it refers to Jesus as God.

God indeed leads. Had it not been His beckoning, I would have missed an sweet opportunity to be awed and changed by His word, as well as the chance to witness about the truth of Jesus to Jehovah's Witnesses.