Ultimatum Given by me to Jesus Christ
“My times are in your hands – Ps 31:15 (NIV)”
I told Pastor Jacob George that if Jesus Christ heals my son completely within one month by Jan 15, 2001, I would accept Him as my personal Saviour. He agreed but told me to stop worshipping any idols and have complete faith in Jesus and worship Him alone. “Without faith it is impossible to please God (Heb 11:6)” he said. From that day onwards, I had stopped idolatry and chanting of any mantras and started praying only to Jesus. I prayed sincerely, with all my heart and soul. I prayed all the time. I prayed for every
thing. I prayed before doing anything. The prayer was in my mind all the 24 hours. I could feel the presence of the Holy Spirit in me. Many miracles happened in my day to day life proving to me “I am with you always even to the very end of the age (Mt 28:20)” and the God’s grace was with me all the time. Every Saturday I used to call my family. The call, normally, won’t materialize for a long time and it really used to test my patience. But as soon as I pray and beg to the Lord for the connection, I would get it immediately. This happened many a times. One day I had misplaced the telephone prepaid card somewhere. I searched it for more than 30 minutes but to no avail. I got it immediately as soon as I prayed to the Lord. Once I could not open the lid of my cooker. Somehow it had got struck and I struggled for nearly 15 minutes to open it. Finally when I looked up to the Lord for help, it opened up. Normally Americans don’t stop the car on the high way to give lift to any strangers. Many a times, whenever I was stranded in the hospital or in any Max station because of rain or inclement weather, I would just pray to Jesus and I would get a lift in some car to reach my apartment. Like this, THE LORD ANSWERED ALL MY PRAYERS AND MET MY DAY TO DAY NEEDS AND PROVED THAT HE NEVER FORSAKES HIS CHILDREN. “Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you, not as the world gives do I give you. Let not your heart be troubled neither let it be afraid (John 14: 27)”. True to His Words, more than anything else, the Lord gave me the peace and hope which I had totally lost without HIM.
At the same time, I had a feeling in my heart as to who am I to give an ultimatum of one month to the Lord to heal my son. He is the Almighty God who created the whole universe, millions of stars and planets. The Lord has said, “It is I who made the earth and created mankind upon it (Is 45:12)”. He is the Creator of all the living beings on the land, the air and the sea. Recently I saw a news item in TV that a satellite which was sent by NASA Scientists from USA had traveled continuously for seven years and reached
S. THAYAPPAN 25 Saturn. When I tried to imagine the distance from earth to Saturn, my head was really swirling. I saw another news item in TV on Sep 01, 2004 that the American scientists have discovered two more new planets like earth at a distance of 35 light years in the solar system. What has been discovered out of the creation of the Lord by the scientists in the world so far is only very little and yet to be discovered is unimaginable. Whenever there is a discovery of a new planet in the galaxy or cosmic universe, we are awe struck with the creation of the Lord. All these things which are beyond our thinking and understanding were created by the Lord with ONE WORD and He hung them in vacuum like flowers in a tree. What a fool I had been to give a time and date to such an omnipotent Lord and Creator to heal my son in one month! He knows what is best for me and for my son. HE DOES EVERYTHING BEAUTIFUL IN HIS RIGHT TIME AND WAY (Ecl 3:11). Psalmist says in Ps 55:22, “Cast your burden on the Lord and He shall sustain you. He shall never permit the righteous to be moved”. That sense and realization dawned on me and I asked the Lord to forgive my foolishness and I totally surrendered at His feet.