I was praying, “God, please let the rain stop and bring many to our
presentation.” Right on cue the rain stopped, but there were only a few random people standing around.. I didn’t
even really want to sing or do the drama skit, because nobody had shown up. We had come in fired up to finish strong in our last
week, and we were left standing in puddles, awkwardly in the middle of a basketball court, thinking of postponing the presentation.
We ended up just
shortening things and trying to get it over with. We sang a couple of Waray songs, shared a testimony, and explained that we had traveled there to teach the Bible. With much doubt in my mind, we began to talk to people in an attempt to schedule Bible studies. At that moment, God changed my view of
His purpose that day. God didn’t need a plaza
presentation; He was going to work in the hearts of the Waray-Waray people
rain or shine.
The next thing I knew, we had 14 Bible studies scheduled for the next
day. Just like He did for me on that day, God is continually revealing His plan in this
world. It’s not so that Christians can try to fit God into our schedule,
but so that we can see how we fit into His big plan.
Roman 6:18 calls us slaves to
righteousness, and as slaves we are obedient to our Master. We
serve a boundless God who can’t be put in a box, so we obedient followers
of Jesus Christ must be completely submitted to His plan.