"I hope God Puts the answers on your heart...... All in His Timing of course."
It has been almost a week since I last wrote in here but that doesn't mean my life has not been crazy. That is all it had been so that's my reason for not writing as much. I do have a lot that I need to write though because God has been teaching me one thing after another. See if I can remember them all and get them out the next few days.
I've been thinking a lot about friend lately and how we came about to be friends. The answer I came up with was: it was all God's prefect timing. It was God tugging on my heart and sending me to my friend when my friend needed someone the most. Some people might think I'm crazy when I say I can really feel or realize when the Spirit of God is tugging or pushing at my heart. I like to say God has given me that kind of discerment and when you follow it enough you can tell what it is.
I won't go into detail about each situation but I will tell you each of them. I've known this friend for about 8 years now. Scary. :) This friend was a college friend and that's where it all started. The situations might be out of order some but I'll get close to what I can remember. There was one day I saw my friend on the sidewalk. The friend looked upset so I wrote a Facebook message that night to see what was wrong. I've heard though people and my own observations that things changed.
I did get a message back telling me what happened but that was it. Next time God was tugging at my heart was when my friend was putting up the feelings about life at that moment. My friend wanted to talk to someone so I wrote back and asked if breakfast at 7:00 in the morning would be a time to get together and talk. My friend didn't get back to me but I got up and ready and went thinking and hoping my friend would be there. My friend came a little late but showed up. We were both hoping each would be there and we were.
Then another time I saw my friend really down and that is after coming back after my friend was gone for a week. Again I wrote him a message and he wrote me back. A relative had passed away. Another time I saw my friend crying during and after a Bible study that we went to and I went up afterwards and asked if everything was okay. Then during one of our college's open house (that's when we get to visit the females get to visit the male dorms and vice via) my girlfriends and I went to my friend's dorm and my friend was working on an app for being an inter somewhere. That was kind of on the spot moment too.
Those were all during college but it is still going today. I have given my friend money when he would put the request randomly out there. I have prayed for my friend multiple of times and left comments and emails of encouragement. Like here recently I asked if I could pray for my friend and my friend responded back with some prayer requests a few days later. Each time I do or have done those things it's because I felt the Spirit tug on my heart because usually espically at the start of the friendship I wouldn't have done those things that easily.
It is strange when you build a friendship like that because in either way you never want to let go. Both of you have been through too much together without maybe even knowing. I know there have also been times where me and my friend is learning the same God given lesson at same time but different ways like now. Learning to trust and lean on God because He has a Plan for our lives. Might not be the same one but God has a plan and is getting us ready for it. Things will come about in His Timing. I know too that we are both big on pray and God's Timing.
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