About 7 or 8 years ago, I was praying for God to bring somebody into my life. Shortly afterwards I met someone who was doing a 'year out' with the church I then attended. We spent quite a bit of time working together and seemed to get on like a house on fire. But I knew she'd only be around for a year and then she'd be moving away. In any case, I respected what she was doing too much to want to distract her with a relationship. So instead I prayed that if it was God's will for us to go out, she'd get a job locally when her year was up and stay around. The following week she told me she had applied for a local job and I was so excited I was swinging from the roadsigns on the way home that night. But she didn't get that job - she got a job in London instead. I was really angry with God for bringing someone that wonderful into my life, making me think He was answering my prayers - and then not doing so. A few weeks later (before she actually left town) I went to London for a meeting that was 'coincidentally' in the same street she told me she was about to move to. As I walked up the hill towards where I was going, I noticed somebody had graffitied the words 'God Loves You' on the gable end of one of the buildings. When I got there, I checked the address - and it was the building she was about to move into! I realised at once it was a direct message from God into my situation.
The reason I started this thread is that I alluded to the story in another thread recently but didn't want to take that thread off-topic by telling it there - however I thought it worth telling as an encouragement to those going through the same thing. I know it's not a good title - but I couldn't think of a better one when I wrote it! (Perhaps 'How God Reassured me of His love for me'?)
At the time I was going through what was probably the low point of my life (I was also struggling with a career-threatening injury at the time). I'd begun wonder whether God really loved me or whether Christ's death was just cold hard logic (As Spock put it - 'Were I to invoke logic then logic dictates that the good of the many outweighs the good of the one.') Thankfully, thanks to God's intervention in my life that day, I no longer feel that way.
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