Through trusting the Lord in the small things, the Lord will entrust you with bigger things.
I wasn't in the initial conversation but I caught the gist of it as I casually took off one ear phone to take some pictures of the beautiful mountains we were going through. I started to think about what they were saying and thought 'I want to do exactly that. I want to live out my faith. I don't want to continue talking about things that I say I believe and not do them because it's too radical or crazy or irrational'. Just as I had finished this thought, the train stopped. Looking out the window, I saw a middle aged man limping with a stick in his hand to be used as support who was getting on the train. Immediately I thought 'wouldn't it be cool to pray for him?' More people got on the train. My squad mates kept discussing and then it grew quiet. Alexandra, our squad leader, broke the silence and said "my heart immediately jumped when I saw that man. Let's go find him". Everyone agreed and got up. I didn't know what man they were talking about, but I had a feeling it was that man that I saw. I got up as well and asked Alexandra "are you going to pray for that man who was limping?" She looked at me, raised her eyebrows and said "Yeah. Come with us". So I followed them through the narrow train doors to the car that man was sitting in.
Alexandra was the first to speak. She went straight to the point. She told him that we believe in a God who heals and that we wanted to pray for him. We asked what happened to his knee and then asked if we could pray for healing for him. He said yes. All six of us started to pray for this man, Julian Anthony Kergood. After a couple of minutes of praying, we asked him how his knee felt. He got up and walked up and down the passageway and sat back down. We saw that he was still limping but had said that the part that hurt him the most was gone.
He kept telling us more about himself. I could only hear some of what he was saying because the train was loud, crowded and we had to keep moving because people were constantly passing through. I did, however, hear him say that he felt something warm throughout his body and felt a peace that he had never felt before. Ceena, my team mate, prayed for that specifically – that he would feel the Holy Spirit come upon him. Julian said he knew that God sent us to talk with him. He shared that he had a dream that he was on a mountain with a crown on his head, preaching the gospel to a crowd. He said he wants to be a preacher and that he knows that the Lord is going to provide for him so he can become what the Lord is calling him to be.
I've come at a point in my faith where I'm ok with looking a little crazy for Jesus. I'm not so worried about what people think anymore. I want people to know Jesus – the healer of broken lives and the restorer of all good things. What eternal value do I have to gain with worrying about what others think? My God is a good God, drawing hearts to himself – we are only the instruments.
I couldn't have been here in this place spiritually or physically in this part of the world without trusting the Lord in my everyday words and actions and in thinking – ok…how can my thoughts, my words and my actions reflect Christ and how can I give Him glory in this very moment (even in the very small things)?
I live because of Christ. I love because of Christ. Apart from that, my life is meaningless.
Where is your heart today? What are the things that the Lord is calling you to do or to let go? He wants your everything. Let Him do His work in your life and He will do INCREDIBLE and UNTHINKABLE things in your life. He is the giver and everything He has to give to you is good.
Trust Him.
