Touching story huh?!! So now you’re probably wondering how this experience changed my perspective of how I view God. Well I’m not done yet. I finally got myself together and end up having to go change my clothes because I threw up everything I ate for breakfast. I know you’re like really Alex you cried that hard out in public? Well to answer your question no. As we left the restaurant we walked past a building and all I could smell was food, urine, bile, and rubbish and it smelt horrible. I tried my best not to through up but I could stop it. Several of my teams almost threw up but I guess it just got the best of me, and I got it all over my jacket and shirt.
Any ways as the day went on I thought threw the seen over and over in my head. While I gazed at miles and miles of fields of orange trees, God spoke to me clearly and said, “that was me that hugged me you. You prayed and asked me to comfort you, you wanted to run into the arms of your parents and I came running to you.” I was completely thrown off for a minute and then I realized he was so right. In my distress and sadness I had asked the Father, MY FATHER, to come and comforter me. I told him of my longing to be with my family and he answered my request. He sent a beautiful 15 year old Chinese girl, that can’t speak my language, has never seen a black person before, and doesn’t know me from any other Jo Blow to do his will. It’s funny because all the things that would normally matter in the states didn’t matter here. She didn’t need to talk to me because her actions said more to me than her words ever could have.
I made a call to my Father and he answered on the first ring. I didn’t have to hang up and try the number again. I didn’t have to send a text first to get his attention, because he was waiting on me to give him a ring. I so wasn’t expecting God to answer me that fast. I thought it would be an all-day process to get my emotions under control but he came right on time. Psalms 37:4 says “Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart.” God is so willing to give us just what we need if we just ask him and depend on him. It is so amazing what he’ll do for us when we seek his kingdom and give him our burdens. He is a burden bearer, but he can’t do that for us if we don’t allow him.
