God's Favorite Method

God's favorite method

It was deep in printed in my heart at this point and time I believe this was God telling me what to do, she had to be the first one to celebrate with, after all if it wasn’t for God enabling her to carry this young lady for nine months, then I wouldn’t have probably been here today. God put this strongly in my heart that many are the times that when we celebrate our born day we much less expect birthday wishes and gifts from others but rarely do we give gifts to God or others as a show of thanksgiving not to man but unto God.  It might be a special seed you plant or give an offering of thanksgiving unto God, it may be by visiting with the less privileged just to share God’s love with them or it might be a simple way of saying thank you to your parents for giving you the opportunity to live, whichever the case is at least you’ve celebrated someone else apart from yourself. As for me God just said ‘call her and let her know that you’re thankful for her being your mother and for giving birth to you’. As you can imagine this phrase brings tears to my eyes because these words took me down the memory lane of how Mama has been there for us(her children/my siblings) single handedly. She ensured that we all went to school even though she only studied upto lower class three. Mama is the strongest, wisest, bravest, industrious, intelligent, beautiful, kind, generous, prayerful, joyful, forgiving, sacrificial and most amazing woman whom words can’t clearly define.

I made the call at around 8:45am while at work, she picked up after a few dials, her motherly voice whispered in my ears greeting me good morning, I responded to the greeting and went straight ahead to tell her how thankful I am for her giving birth to me on a day like today (International Women’s Day). She was joyful and glad at the same time. She started singing to me the ‘happy birthday song’, that was my special moment, my heart leaped inside my chest… literally speaking, then after she prayed for me…how cool is that, it’s one thing when someone else prays for you and it’s another when your mum does it, Mama’s prayers just touches the core J( feeling blessed). Mama once told me in a conversation we had (in which I did most of asking while she did most answering) that I was born in the wee hours of the morning in March 8^th 1990 (of course I have a birth certificate :-) ). I take all my birthdays as a beginning of my new beginnings. New leaf of life, new chapter has been opened and new season is here with me yet again. Well, am grateful to God for this opportunity, that He has granted me yet another year. I sure don’t know about you but as for me, life is significant in every aspect. My breathing, smelling, seeing, hearing and touching isn’t something that am gonna take for granted. To be alive and healthy today, it has taken the hand of God. The enemy could have gotten rid of me in a twinkle of an eye but My Daddy didn’t allow that to happen.

In my many days on this earth have come to learn few stuff that have impacted my life; the way I perceive situations, people, and this journey am in. Some I had to learn in a hard way, others in an easy way either way, have been learning. Today I will share just one of the lessons I am still learning.

1  God uses PROCESSES as His METHOD of working

Before I continue let me mention that in every process, PATIENCE is the KEY engine that makes the vehicle (you) move.

As young people we have been brought up in a microwave environment thus the society has labeled us the ‘microwave generation’ meaning we like it when we get things done in a flash. Patience is a rare virtue nowadays, if anything you’ll be labelled as an ‘old fashion’ when you say ‘am waiting for my chance or am waiting on God’. I am a victim of impatience upto date and each time I practice impatience, God reminds me that ‘daughter you didn’t wait for My help in this situation’.

In Kenya impatience can be seen in the transport industry. Lately, we’ve had an increase of ‘matatus’ (means public vehicles/ bus used for commercial purposes to transporting people from one point to another) on our roads, these ‘matatus’ have 3 categories; the first category are the old ones (especially the Nissans) are meant for people who are going for short distance and those who are in a hurry or have luggages; the second category is new or moderate new with soft music, these ones are buses they carry elderly, infants with parents, working class that don’t like noise or anyone going far (to town) or near and find it comfortable; third category are the new ones, extremely noisy buses with thematic artworks all around them, they’re ‘pimped’ with unique chairs, big screen, carpet, water dispenser (on some) and loud, latest, mostly secular youthful music. Their customers or rather target is young people who are either in school, working or not. These types of vehicles (3^rd category) have been embraced as part of our culture. Many youths love them because they’re hype, fashionable and most importantly they’re fast. I personally prefer them on some occasions especially when am getting late. When traffic is too tight, these specific vehicles have a way of escaping the traffic by either using other ‘link roads’ or by simply overlapping (it’s a traffic offense that drivers choose to ignore).

The after effects of riding in category 3 are in two parts; the negative part and the positive part, but the negative outweighs the positive. The only positive is that they are fast, so be assured you’ll get to your destination in good time. The negatives are as follows; frequent fatal accidents, careless driving, high increased rate of hit and run and the vehicles don’t last for long on the roads due to wreckages.

In reference to the above, we sometimes behave like the 3^rd category type of buses. In that in as much as we are aware of God’s plan for our lives we still want to have our way in life just because we feel like God’s ways take too long to come to pass, one part of us is praying ‘God have Your way in my life’ while yet we have another part saying ‘my own way is fast and the best option’, it’s more of a Flesh vs Spirit battle in which cases the winner between the two is normally the one whom you’ve been feeding or rather empowering. The problem of going with category 3 or the Flesh way is that the implications and consequences can be dangerous and life threatening. In the process you might face fatal accidents along the way, relationships between you and other people becomes sour, conflicts, arguments and loss of direction in life becomes part and parcel of your lifestyle.

In as much as the process might be taking too long to be completed, God expects us to wait patiently, enjoy the process and learn from it. At times the process might be painful, challenging or even full of disappointments but in the midst of it all God‘s grace abounds the more.  Before thinking of taking the shortcut that seems so fast, stylish, fashionable and the in thing, think first, the thing that seems so appealing might not be the right thing for you. I believe God’s plan for your life according to Jeremiah 29:11 are to give you Hope and Future and not to destroy or harm you in any way. I believe as Christians we are gold,  just like gold that requires fire for it to be purified, so do we. God has to take us through uncomfortable circumstance so that we can be pure gold free from impurities. God’s process doesn’t happen overnight, it can take a month, one year or even a decade, but at the end of it all you’ll appear as pure as gold.

Am a process and God is working in my life to make me who He wants me to be. Times I feel like the process is derailing me behind while my peers are moving ahead, but God has a way of reminding me that ‘your story is not their story my daughter’. In this life, learn to trust and be guided by God and not men’s voices and opinions, because if you cling to the voices of men, you’ll come tumbling down once they say something negative about you after all they are mortal here today gone tomorrow. But God is the same yesterday, today and forever.

In conclusion allow God’s process to take its course in your life.

God bless you!

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