Thoughts for another day

March 31, 2009.

Today's verse: Job 5:22. At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth. (KJV)
(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)

Trust in the LORD alone and again I say, trust only in Him for He alone will come to your aid, when you’ve hit the bottom. Man can’t be considered trustworthy and will not share in your dark moments because he has a heart that refuses to forgive and forget; as well as a vindictive nature. But God is wonderful. He will quickly forget the insults of the past and look to the future with promise. God doesn’t wait for you to rise from the morass you’ve sunk into, rather He will arrive and settle with you in that dirt, giving you the strength to rise and return to normalcy. God will cajole you and tell you, ‘Let’s discuss, man to man and see what you have to say!’ You’ll see this trait of God in the prophetical books of the Old Testament, isn’t He wonderful. And God will always side with you if you are a sinner - Jesus did in the house of Simon when the sinner lady anointed His feet with perfume.

In our own way of thinking and working in life, we court various troubles and useless situations. We don’t think if it’s right to indulge in them or not, but use our wisdom to plunge into them, later realising it was a grave mistake. Let’s take Tony, a person who for heck’s sake, took to liquor initially to show he was a man. Then increased his quota, to show who could stand with maximum pegs in. His marriage was a disaster, his kids, a bunch of crummy urchins and he was a bundle of dirt, fetched and dispatched each night on the verandah of his house by people in the neighborhood. He was a disgrace and none liked to talk to him for even to be seen with him was a slur on the character! But to Nonie, a young nun, Tony was a challenge and she promised to bring his life back on track. It took her a lot of time, but she won and God entered Tony’s repentant life.

Today, Tony is a changed man and he teaches people the above verse. How could he forget what he first learnt, ‘Happy is the man whom God corrects…’ Job 5:17. And he knows that a man who is with God fears none else. The winds may howl and the earth may scream, but calm prevails in the heart tuned to God. And Tony has one thing to say to anyone is distress, ‘If God can change Tony Cirilo, then God is able to do anything. He will change you lot. Just allow Him.’ Care to take his advice?