It was one of those Murphy’s Law days.
Everything went wrong.
Twenty minutes out onto the highway, I sighed, “Oh gosh. I don’t know if i switched the steamer off.”
“I think you did,” Cliff said.
“The timer’s spoiled. I’m worried it’ll spark a fire.”
We’d almost reached church.
“Tell you what, I’ll drop you guys off and I’ll head back to check.”
“Oh gosh, I feel awful.”
We didn’t live close to church at all.
“No biggie. Hey, it could happen to me too, Wai Jia.”
Off Cliff went.
When we arrived at church, the kids, anxious to enter Sunday school, bobbed up and down in excitement.
“I’m so sorry, it says you’re not registered. The classes are full.”
“What? No, no- Cliff registered for the kids. I’m sure we did.”
A phone-call later, Cliff sighed back, “I’m so sorry Wai Jia, I must have missed clicking the final button to confirm registration.”
This time, it was my turn to say, “It’s okay, it could have happened to me too.”
Ten years ago, we would have torn each other’s hair out.
Refusing to let a series of mishaps ruin our Sunday, we trekked to our church’s other location in town where thankfully, another service with space for the kids ran.
“Aww man, it’s the same message as last week,” I thought.
But how it soaked in. I took notes. I NEEDED this message, yes a second time. And at the end of the service at the altar call, our senior pastor called me out and gave a very specific prophetic word in public to me, about my speaking to the nations.
If not for the series of mishaps that morning, I would not have been there.
Are you discouraged, disappointed? Do you feel like a wanderer, like you’ve wasted time going from one thing to the next? Know this- God is watching. He is seeing. And while you might not understand or know what’s going on, or why things happened, why you journeyed so long and far to reach where you are, God’s weaving a story. He’s working when you don’t see it.
And ultimately, everything will come together for good, I promise.
Because He promised. (Romans 8:28)