jambo
Puritan Board Senior
This happened a wee while ago but over the last couple of days I have been thinking about it a lot.
I work for a cable company and my job involves going to people's houses to fix their TV, broadband and telephone services. I got a call to fix a telephone line at a house that was just a few hundred yards from our church. Normally on such a fault I would go to the street cabinet first to check the line there. I put my key in the door but the door would not not unlock. I pushed and pulled, huffed and puffed, got my screwdriver out to use as a lever but still the door would not budge. The only option was to drill the lock out. However before doing that I thought I would check the house first.
On arriving at the house I recognised it as one I visited with another church member some months earlier when we were knocking on doors. On that particular night we had a very good conversation with a young girl who was quite clearly searching for spiritual truth. We had a long conversation with her and although I called back on a number of occasions, every time I called she was never in.
On this day however I rang the and as soon as she opened the door she was recognised me and was truly astonished. Just 10 minutes earlier in some distress she prayed out to God, "Oh Lord please send a Christian to me." Then here I am on her doorstep. We spent some time talking about spiritual things.
After this it was time to fix her phone. I checked the house and I knew I had to get into the cabinet. I got my drill out the van but before drilling out the lock I thought I would try the door one more time. I put my key in and the door opened immediately. Now it was my turn to be astonished. Had the door opened when I arrived at first I would have fixed the fault and just phoned the house and driven away without knowing who it was I was talking to.
I find it remarkable how this door would not budge on arrival yet opened so easily after talking with her.
I am wondering if others have stories of providence where seemingly insignificant events turned out to be hugely significant. The world of course calls this coincidence, but we would know it as providence.
I work for a cable company and my job involves going to people's houses to fix their TV, broadband and telephone services. I got a call to fix a telephone line at a house that was just a few hundred yards from our church. Normally on such a fault I would go to the street cabinet first to check the line there. I put my key in the door but the door would not not unlock. I pushed and pulled, huffed and puffed, got my screwdriver out to use as a lever but still the door would not budge. The only option was to drill the lock out. However before doing that I thought I would check the house first.
On arriving at the house I recognised it as one I visited with another church member some months earlier when we were knocking on doors. On that particular night we had a very good conversation with a young girl who was quite clearly searching for spiritual truth. We had a long conversation with her and although I called back on a number of occasions, every time I called she was never in.
On this day however I rang the and as soon as she opened the door she was recognised me and was truly astonished. Just 10 minutes earlier in some distress she prayed out to God, "Oh Lord please send a Christian to me." Then here I am on her doorstep. We spent some time talking about spiritual things.
After this it was time to fix her phone. I checked the house and I knew I had to get into the cabinet. I got my drill out the van but before drilling out the lock I thought I would try the door one more time. I put my key in and the door opened immediately. Now it was my turn to be astonished. Had the door opened when I arrived at first I would have fixed the fault and just phoned the house and driven away without knowing who it was I was talking to.
I find it remarkable how this door would not budge on arrival yet opened so easily after talking with her.
I am wondering if others have stories of providence where seemingly insignificant events turned out to be hugely significant. The world of course calls this coincidence, but we would know it as providence.