Trust and Obey
...ch is in the Middle East, geographically, very close to Saudi Arabia. My dad happened to be working there at the time. I was raised like most normal Indian boys, except, that my parents were church going people and hence I was brought up going to church as well. So technically I was a Christian, but I was not really committed as I did not really understand what it meant. But as time passed, and as I became a little more mature in years, I slowly, but steadily, began to grasp the real meaning of being a Christian. Mind you, I did not become a Christian by default. I did a lot of searching, and a lot of questioning, and I did get answers to most of my questions. True, there are some questions that I still do not have the answers to. But the answers that I have today are not answers I got immediately either. I truly believe that the questions that I still have will be answered at some other time. At the time I was about 16 years old. The next three years were the toughest, but, the most fruitful years of my life. When I look back over those years I would say that the things that happened during that timeframe was instrumental in molding me, and making me the person I am today. I wrestled a lot with many aspects of my faith. In spite of being a Christian, there were many areas in my life that had still not changed. Well an easy example would be my language. Every other word that I used was a cuss word!! How I actually overcame that was when, at a Youth meeting, the speaker, who was visiting Bahrain at the time, called ME out of a large group of close to 200 guys and girls, to come forward to where he was standing. And in front of everyone there, he hit me on my back with as much intensity and strength as one would use to chop firewood with an axe. And the next thing he did was stick the microphone right into my face, and in my agony I yelled, “OH SHIT!!!!!!” And everyone in the room was silent and waiting to hear how the speaker was going to respond. Well, respond he did. He laughed like there was no tomorrow!!! And he said that that was what he wanted to hear. He went on to say, that “It’s what you are full of that comes out of you”. So basically what he was saying is that, I was full of crap!. At the moment I was a little amused and very embarrassed. But later in the day, it hit me like an arrow hitting its target. It was all of a sudden that I realized what the speaker tried to convey: If I am full of filth, it’s only the filthy deeds that are going to be coming out. But instead if I have Gods presence within me, it’s only His love, which will be radiating out of me. Moving on, I finished high school in Bahrain, and I always wanted to go to college in India. And I did end up going there. But that was cut short when things went messy all of a sudden. One of the main reasons why I chose to go to India for college was because, at the time I was semi professional in Badminton and I knew that I would have better prospects in India for that sport. And to my convenience, I went ahead and assumed that that was Gods will too. But little did...