Kuala Lumpur February 2018 “One second two - my answer in a flash”
01/02/18 04:04
I don't really wonder whether God exists. I have seen and experienced so many unusual things during the past four years that I have no doubt that to be true. I do sometimes wonder what I am supposed to be doing with my life here in Malaysia. Now I asked that question a year or two ago and got an answer. Tonight I am going to get an answer to a different question.
This particular evening I have been left on my own as my wife has gone to visit friends. Maybe I could have gone with her but they are her friends rather than ours so I made my excuses and settled down to listen to some You Tube music or do some work on my photographic collection. Whatever it was after an hour of that I got bored and started to talk to God. I do that a lot, its called prayer and it is usually a one way conversation. Well maybe that's how it is for me but that I don't get a reply was of no consequence. I am praying to thank God for the good things in my life and to ask for help to overcome what seems to be bad. Well this evening's chat is going to be more of the latter as I have switched into the “feeling sorry for myself” mode because I am alone.
For some reason I ask if God is there and listening to me. Now I have no idea why I would utter those words because, most assuredly, I know the answer is “I am with you always”. It says so in the Bible and I have had enough experiences to date to know the truth of that. Anyway I spoke out those words and was about to get a surprise. One second, just one second after I had finished speaking the light in the kitchen started flashing like you would see at a Fun Fair. I starred at it open mouthed then slowly got up and walked in to the kitchen to see what had happened. The light in that room was flickering on and off and I could guess what had happened. Many years ago my University project had been researching the performance of fluorescent tubes. I knew they would start to flicker as the voltage dropped or when the small shunt capacitor unit failed and this was without doubt the latter problem. I starred up at the light and said “Wow, you didn't have to do that Lord. I wasn't expecting an answer!” and then I burst out laughing. Any moodiness within me had disappeared in that flash and by the time my wife returned I was eager to recount this story. One second was all it had taken to change my mood.
This particular evening I have been left on my own as my wife has gone to visit friends. Maybe I could have gone with her but they are her friends rather than ours so I made my excuses and settled down to listen to some You Tube music or do some work on my photographic collection. Whatever it was after an hour of that I got bored and started to talk to God. I do that a lot, its called prayer and it is usually a one way conversation. Well maybe that's how it is for me but that I don't get a reply was of no consequence. I am praying to thank God for the good things in my life and to ask for help to overcome what seems to be bad. Well this evening's chat is going to be more of the latter as I have switched into the “feeling sorry for myself” mode because I am alone.
For some reason I ask if God is there and listening to me. Now I have no idea why I would utter those words because, most assuredly, I know the answer is “I am with you always”. It says so in the Bible and I have had enough experiences to date to know the truth of that. Anyway I spoke out those words and was about to get a surprise. One second, just one second after I had finished speaking the light in the kitchen started flashing like you would see at a Fun Fair. I starred at it open mouthed then slowly got up and walked in to the kitchen to see what had happened. The light in that room was flickering on and off and I could guess what had happened. Many years ago my University project had been researching the performance of fluorescent tubes. I knew they would start to flicker as the voltage dropped or when the small shunt capacitor unit failed and this was without doubt the latter problem. I starred up at the light and said “Wow, you didn't have to do that Lord. I wasn't expecting an answer!” and then I burst out laughing. Any moodiness within me had disappeared in that flash and by the time my wife returned I was eager to recount this story. One second was all it had taken to change my mood.