The second part is an anecdote. This happened a long time ago and i have told this story of faith to many as this had moved me deeply. Yet a beautiful memory emptied into this Pensieve. Now as a story is told, the story teller has the habit of a painter, adding new elements to the canvas. I have not tried this method for a long time, yet i am willing to try telling you a story in this style.
- Imagine a black canvas
- Imagine a white tent
- Imagine red banners written in Malayalam, It looks like the picture on the right. It reads "Yesu" which means "Jesus". The bigger letters are consonants and the smaller ones are vowels. [ A brief explanation to read it : the sign like an inverted 3 is the sound "a" as in "alien" , the next noodle is "ya" as in "yak", the 3rd letter is "sh" as in "shoe" and the last one is "u" as in "shoe". so over all "Yeeshoe" ... and the people said "God bless you". ]
- Imagine a Pentecostal like meeting, i know the flow is gone, well since you may be confused let me show you a picture of what happens here as the story goes on.
How i reached there is still a confusing story, i was at my aunt's place that day and she insisted that i go to the worship there. I was still battling then which came first, the egg or the chicken. The story was funny then but now its a mind baffling challenge.
So here it goes ...
So i find myself among many cymbals and a worship leader screaming "hallelujahs " through a microphone. Every now and then people are testifying the work of the Lord, in simple words giving testimony by standing up from the straw mats we sat on and narrating the story of their life till that hour. My aunt on the other hand stood with the ladies and kept giving me "the eye" that i feared, she wanted me to stand up and tell something. I kept my piece of floor warm.
Now among all these men and women of faith there was this woman who stood up and waited till her chance, then she spoke, like a prisoner of war expressing the first voice of liberty, shouting at the top of her voice "Ente Yesu-ve " means "My Jesus" .... Wow, this woman had something to tell, some thing to stop the worship leader and the entire crowd.
Faith, as its said cannot be seen and is based on the "hope for future" often has some relation to "a past incidence" , and this woman looked like she did and had more than a lot to look for. I wanted to hear her story and i gave my ear to her voice. Here is an altered (name) translated transcript of the conversation.
Worship Leader : Yes, Aunt tell us about it.
Now among all these men and women of faith there was this woman who stood up and waited till her chance, then she spoke, like a prisoner of war expressing the first voice of liberty, shouting at the top of her voice "Ente Yesu-ve " means "My Jesus" .... Wow, this woman had something to tell, some thing to stop the worship leader and the entire crowd.Faith, as its said cannot be seen and is based on the "hope for future" often has some relation to "a past incidence" , and this woman looked like she did and had more than a lot to look for. I wanted to hear her story and i gave my ear to her voice. Here is an altered (name) translated transcript of the conversation.
Worship Leader : Yes, Aunt tell us about it.
Aunt : Praise God, Praise God, Hallelujah
WL : Yes, Amen, Hallelujah
Aunt : Praise God, Praise God
WL (Fearing the message is going to be long ) : Aunt, tell us
Aunt : Yesterday, Daisy was really sick
(WL keeps praising God in the background)
Aunt: Daisy was in lot of pain, but God touched her
WL: Praise God, He healed Daisy, tell me aunt, what happened.
(Everyone is excited)
Aunt: Daisy was in labor pain, she was crying out very loud, I kept praying...
(WL keeps praising God in the background)
Aunt: It was raining very badly and we could not get the doctor in time, and we were very worried, her cries was unbearable,
(By now most of us started praying for Daisy, esp since most people were poor in the region, some did not take pregnant women to hospitals but had midwives come home to assist )
Aunt: The doctor came once the rain had reduced a bit and he too found it really difficult to help her, he gave her some medicines but it did not help, and i was really worried. But i kept praying to my father in heaven who never let me down.
(The WL goes on a full worship mode here)
Aunt: Finally after 5 hours she gave birth to a ....
(The WL and the congregation are excited and the woman voice is almost drowned at this point in time)
Aunt : a beautiful calf....
(Stumped silence echoed in the worship halls ... my brain and the train of thoughts it carried derailed ... Wow, Daisy was her cow??? )
The WL thanked God for this woman and her cow and continued to call the next person for testimony.
WL : Yes, Amen, Hallelujah
Aunt : Praise God, Praise God
WL (Fearing the message is going to be long ) : Aunt, tell us
Aunt : Yesterday, Daisy was really sick
(WL keeps praising God in the background)
Aunt: Daisy was in lot of pain, but God touched her
WL: Praise God, He healed Daisy, tell me aunt, what happened.
(Everyone is excited)
Aunt: Daisy was in labor pain, she was crying out very loud, I kept praying...
(WL keeps praising God in the background)
Aunt: It was raining very badly and we could not get the doctor in time, and we were very worried, her cries was unbearable,
(By now most of us started praying for Daisy, esp since most people were poor in the region, some did not take pregnant women to hospitals but had midwives come home to assist )
Aunt: The doctor came once the rain had reduced a bit and he too found it really difficult to help her, he gave her some medicines but it did not help, and i was really worried. But i kept praying to my father in heaven who never let me down.
(The WL goes on a full worship mode here)
Aunt: Finally after 5 hours she gave birth to a ....
(The WL and the congregation are excited and the woman voice is almost drowned at this point in time)
Aunt : a beautiful calf....
(Stumped silence echoed in the worship halls ... my brain and the train of thoughts it carried derailed ... Wow, Daisy was her cow??? )
The WL thanked God for this woman and her cow and continued to call the next person for testimony.
Later in life i had shared with many people like you and one gave me a convincing reason why the testimony of the woman was worth and the quality of faith she had. For her , may be all she had was this cow named Daisy, it produced milk she sold and earned her bread to live another day. So if the cow died she would have been in serious economic crisis and with the birth of Daisy's calf the woman had more to celebrate. She had looked at God as not only as her protector and provider, but also a God of her cattle and her future. For her God did not end at her kids and her husband, for her, her God took care of her chicken, the cows, her cows birth and much much more. She entrusted her cow's future to her God. Like its written in the Bible, she believed that her God was sufficient for every need of hers.
Are we at this time, in this hour ready to open the safe houses that we have and tell God that we expect him to be the person in charge, of everything we have and we own?? On the journey that God is taking me he keeps telling that he is in charge of my future, and that he wants me to be "still" and know that he is God as he told a few 1000 years ago. When we break the fences that we build so that God would be kept away from (God is Omnipotent, but won't interfere with your life till you ask him to), we would see his miracles. God is God of the stary skies and the pupil of your eye.
God bless ....
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