Potter and the clay ! !
Hmm every time I talk to my friends about my childhood I enjoy it so much simply because I have no regrets. some of the things you can never do it again and still get away with it. I wasnt as smart as I thought I was as eventually I would get caught with dad and then hmmm what followed would be a typical example of Proverbs 13:24 "He who spares the rod hates his son,but he who loves him is careful to discipline him." for my dad that was a GOD given responsibility and oh boy he knew that verse really well. But slowly things changed the moment I grew above his shoulder and when I did something wrong he would not do anything to me but just say a few words, I was surprised and so was my MUM. It was only later I heard what dad told mum "he has grown above my shoulder now I need to treat him as my friend" gosh once I heard it .. it was as though I had got my license to do what I want to do...
Tonight in our connect group all of us shared our testimony as to how we came to know GOD. It has been quite some time since I shared my testimony and even as I was sharing, in the back of my mind I was thinking hmmm GOD has brought me from nothing to something today and he had his own way of doing it. Little would have appreciated certain things back then but now in retrospect I am able to see how GOD molded me into the person I am today. Still remember the time under a tree in the year 1995 at around 8pm on a Friday evening in a big playground on my knees I gave my life to Christ, GOD had been following me for quite sometime and I did have encounters with him but it took me more than a year to surrender my life to him and accept him as my personal Saviour. I cried and asked GOD to forgive me for my sins, and asked him to give me hope to live by. Life wasn't rosy after that but I knew where to go when it hurts, i knew where to go when lost, knew where to knock when cold.
A couple of Sundays ago when I was playing the piano in church someone came and told me, ah never knew you could play piano too,, me being me didn't know what to say literally blushed, smirked and said well praise GOD.. I can manage and only do it when there is no one else to do it. as I was walking back remembered the good old days when I Started to learn the guitar there were very few musicians in town, and I started playing it because all my friend had left me then, I was involved in a bike accident and had broken my shoulder and things between parents and me was strained, then thought well I need to do something and luckily and that time my dad offered to get me this guitar. It is old now and almost out of use but I still have it at my home in Chennai.
And then once when I was asked to play for a womans conference in Chennai yes. they did not have anyone else to play so they asked if I could help with the music, I said yes and finally when I went there they did not have a guitar. By then I had touched the PIANO but not played a full song or so, and the only option was a nice old piano in the corner of the room.I only knew 3 chords in the piano and I was not sure if i would embarrass myself so I went and told the sister(who had invited me) sorry I am not confident and I only know 3 chords.. she was persistent and said don't worry we will sing with the chords you know.. and she also made a statement saying who knows maybe this is your start with the piano and you will never stop. Well she was right , not that I am a maestro but I have had lots of opportunities to play the piano especially in churches when there is no one else to do it.
Think it is always good to reminisce the past and see the hand of GOD move in our life's, it rekindles my faith when I do it, it reassures my hope in Christ, it brings tears of Joy, it gives me faith in the potter and I am glad to be the clay. It reminds me that he who has called me is faithful and will remain faithful till he has completed the good work in my life.
Tonight in our connect group all of us shared our testimony as to how we came to know GOD. It has been quite some time since I shared my testimony and even as I was sharing, in the back of my mind I was thinking hmmm GOD has brought me from nothing to something today and he had his own way of doing it. Little would have appreciated certain things back then but now in retrospect I am able to see how GOD molded me into the person I am today. Still remember the time under a tree in the year 1995 at around 8pm on a Friday evening in a big playground on my knees I gave my life to Christ, GOD had been following me for quite sometime and I did have encounters with him but it took me more than a year to surrender my life to him and accept him as my personal Saviour. I cried and asked GOD to forgive me for my sins, and asked him to give me hope to live by. Life wasn't rosy after that but I knew where to go when it hurts, i knew where to go when lost, knew where to knock when cold.
A couple of Sundays ago when I was playing the piano in church someone came and told me, ah never knew you could play piano too,, me being me didn't know what to say literally blushed, smirked and said well praise GOD.. I can manage and only do it when there is no one else to do it. as I was walking back remembered the good old days when I Started to learn the guitar there were very few musicians in town, and I started playing it because all my friend had left me then, I was involved in a bike accident and had broken my shoulder and things between parents and me was strained, then thought well I need to do something and luckily and that time my dad offered to get me this guitar. It is old now and almost out of use but I still have it at my home in Chennai.
And then once when I was asked to play for a womans conference in Chennai yes. they did not have anyone else to play so they asked if I could help with the music, I said yes and finally when I went there they did not have a guitar. By then I had touched the PIANO but not played a full song or so, and the only option was a nice old piano in the corner of the room.I only knew 3 chords in the piano and I was not sure if i would embarrass myself so I went and told the sister(who had invited me) sorry I am not confident and I only know 3 chords.. she was persistent and said don't worry we will sing with the chords you know.. and she also made a statement saying who knows maybe this is your start with the piano and you will never stop. Well she was right , not that I am a maestro but I have had lots of opportunities to play the piano especially in churches when there is no one else to do it.
Think it is always good to reminisce the past and see the hand of GOD move in our life's, it rekindles my faith when I do it, it reassures my hope in Christ, it brings tears of Joy, it gives me faith in the potter and I am glad to be the clay. It reminds me that he who has called me is faithful and will remain faithful till he has completed the good work in my life.
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