Surprise Me, God!

..:: My Story ::..

It was Thursday. We had our usual 15:30h coffee break in between my two blocks of Regelungstechnik 2 (Automatic System Control 2) classes. I bought a paper cup of coffee and we chatted. The topic? It is, again, about studies, and about how Jon claimed that he can beat me. He was joking, of course.

10 minutes plus passed and we got ourselves up. On our way back to our Labor Digitaltechnik, I suddenly remembered that I have, again, forgotten to take out my Mensakarte (mensa debit card) out from the coffee machine. So I ran back to the caféteria, hoping to find it still left inserted in the coffee machine. But I guess a same good thing seldom happens twice, and nothing was seen in the machine. So I asked the caféteria lady. Not only she said she didn’t see it, I got myself extra lecture from her. Well yea, I mean I think I deserve to be lecture because of the mistake, but I wasn’t really in the mood, so I just let her finish her naggings and asked a group of people there who were getting themselves coffee too.
Something told me that my card was taken by of one of them. Of course, who didn’t want a free mensa card with some debit cash in it? But then again, I thank God somehow that I got myself a reality check, that I shouldn’t jump straight into conclusion that they took. And after asking some of them, I went back to my lecture class, feeling extremely down. I was down, and not even Prof. Wölfmüller’s loud voice could bring me back to focus in the class. It was bad bad day. That’s what I thought.
That night, I really couldn’t get myself to sleep. I even tried to play as many games of Solitaire as possible with my phone to get myself to sleep. And somehow, I slept – but for a while. zzz

I was awake then again around 04:30 am. I knew myself that I couldn’t sleep back again, so might as well just start-my-day. I took my Bible from my bed and continue my to-finish-reading-the-Bible-first-round project. I was reading Philippians. But well, I couldn’t really focus. My mind kept on thinking about the card. Not just about losing a card, but also €37 in it. With the deposit it means around €42 gone just like that. So I prayed.

Father God, what do you want me to learn from this? Why it happened? If everything is in Your hands, why is this?

It was a struggle and around 06:15am I turned on my Digsby and found Gloria online. And since I haven’t really thank her yet for making my current candid-but-awesome new Facebook profile picture, I chatted with her. If you know me well enough, I would always tell someone about my problems, and Pat should understand that very well. But anyway, I told Gloria about the story and asked about her opinion of what she thinks God want to convey through the incident.

..:: Her Story ::..

She told me that she had the similar case as well. When she was in New York she accidentally dropped some cash from her pocket and didn’t know where it went. But instead of being like me, complaining sulking whatever, she told herself, that

maybe someone was praying, maybe someone was hungry, or somone really needed a miracle from God, and found the money on the floor..

and she felt better after that. But of course, one should learn from mistake as well. And honestly, that kind of thoughts never come in my mind. God put it in her head.

..:: What I learned ::..

And thus I was given answers of what I asked:

(1) it is not necessarily to be a bad day because of losing a mensa card, (2) and I am being selfish to just thinking only about I-lost-a-mensa-card, (3) when I should learn about giving to others, because someone else might needed that money more than I do, (4) and I should learn to think positively about what happened in my life.

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..:: Her “Surprise me, God” ::..

After that we updated each other about our current lives. And she talked about how she was inspired by a guy on the airplane about doing daily prayer and prayer for “surprise me, God” and God really gave her lots of surprises. Not necessarily the good ones all the time, but there are also bad surprises but with lots of things to learn from them. She gave a testimony about what happened recently, as in her latest surprise that day. And I felt encouraged.

..:: My “Surprise me, God” ::..

And time flew quite fast, it’s already 7 something in the morning. And I packed my stuffs and went school, which in the end found out that the class “Ethic” was cancelled. I was praying (ohhh it’s good to start rely on God no matter what :3 ) “God, how then shall I know when the classes would begin, since I missed the class last week?” And at that moment, I saw my Cameroon friend sitting near to the place where I was sitting. I got up and asked him if he is taking the same class. And thank God he is, and he gave me all the needed information about the class.

..:: Your “Surprise me, God” ::..

God can really surprise people :) And to think of it, chatting with Gloria which led to so much encounters is already a surprise from God Himself, in return of my prayer to hunger for Him more. Now it is your turn. When you wake up in the morning, pray to God to surprise you on that day. And be ready to be surprised by God! And I am soooooooo much blessed to have tons of godly angels around me.

God, You’re awesome!


He who is having a joyful heart,
Vincent :3