“We
took sweet counsel together, And
walked to the house of God in the throng.” – Psalms 55:14
Few days back I got an
sms from an unknown number stating that a particular aunty has passed away. I
saw her for the last time nearly 10 years before but yet that news broke my
heart. Because she is one of those few people God used to bring change in my
life. I began to look back the old days where she showed motherly love to me
and to many young people.
Many years back when I
was in my teen age my eldest brother used to attend a youth prayer meet
regularly which will be held once in a month. On those days he is not a guy who
used to attend such prayers but yet he liked this particular prayer meet a lot.
He used to call me once in a while to that meet but I was hesitant to go with
him as I was a shy person.
But one day I had
decided to go with him. When I reached the home where the prayer meet was held
I saw that aunty for the first time. She had a particular disease and so she
can’t see the persons and things at a longer distance. But she had joined with
another aunty and they both opened their house to conduct that youth prayer
once in every month.
Nearly 25 young people
used to attend that prayer and a team from another city leads the worship,
prayer and preaching sessions. I was greatly blessed through those meetings.
When I had faced temptations and trials, the counselling that I got from the
preachers who came there really helped me.
God moulded me through
so many people who came there and particularly through the love of those
aunties. Even if one month someone misses the meeting they will enquire with so
much love and advise us to attend regularly. They took care of everyone who
came there. They were a great comfort to those who came there with failures and
sorrows.
We used to stay there
even for hours after the meet but they had never complained about it. They
always loved us and sometimes provided food to us. More than they loved us
personally what I understand was they loved our soul. They wanted us to grow in
God at any cost.
God used that
fellowship to bring so many changes into my life. Whenever I ran away from
responsibilities, those people in that fellowship encouraged me to take
responsibilities and helped me to fulfil that for God.
As we grew in God,
those aunties grew old and so they decided to handover the leadership to one particular
couple and slowly that fellowship ended.
As I look back I thank
God for that fellowship and those aunties. I feel guilty that I should have
atleast spoke once to those aunties in these years. I knew they would have felt
happy if they hear that I am still growing with God and I didn’t forgot the
experience I had gained through them. Things changed and now one of those
aunties has passed away.
I had learnt that we
should be ready to do anything for God so that people around us might get
blessed. We can open our house for prayer fellowship or with few amount of
money and time we had we can help people to know the love of God. Let’s take a
resolution that we will give whatever we had, to God and for God. God will
surely bless you.
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