God's Perfect Timing

I believe that God really like to bring us to places that pushes us to trust in Him.

It's been a wonderful journey.

I had the opportunity to appear in TV for the very first time. It was both exciting and I was nervous to bits. I thanked God for the opportunity.

Then it was taken away. They needed less people so I couldn't be a part of it anymore.

Needless to say, I was disappointed. Thanks to Google, I searched on Christian articles that deals with disappointments. An article puts it aptly, "Let's receive success and failures with grace."

Ah, grace. Grace is a mark of humility. I decided to pray about this, saying that it's God's plan. The Lord gives, the Lord takes away, blessed be the name of the Lord.

With that performance down, I can also focus on other stuff, which is just as well. I think to myself that perhaps God has other plans and maybe this is not a road that I will walk upon.

Dealt with that in a day, not depressed over it or anything, which on hindsight, it's really the grace of God that is increasing daily in my life. In the past, I would have cried or be depressed and would have asked God "why??". Perhaps due to a recent conference, sitting with Ravi Zacharias as he expounds on the problem of pain, has taught me. Like Job, there is pain, but the question to ask God is "Is there a view that I do not have?"

I think the view is God is sovereign. God has His plans, always. That is the kind of God that I have. Always faithful, always knowing the best.

Unfortunately, I still slacked a bit in my training because of this, but thank God I kept my diet free from snacks and stuff.

Then on Friday morning, I got a message to ask whether I am available to come back in because one person had to pull out. I couldn't believe my eyes. Here is God, giving me back the opportunity. Cannot thank Him enough.

So the most important lesson that I've learn from this journey is not how to sing confidently on TV and with a bunch of fantabulous singers, or how confident the emcee is. It's that God always has a plan and He knows exactly what He is doing. Sometimes He takes away to teach us a view that we do not have and cannot see, so that in the end, like the blind man who, when he removed the mud from his eyes, can see.

And that is the beauty of the Lord.