Accepting the Lord's arrangement has been my family living since the time I got married. Hardly did my wife and me made any preference in, to whom we have to give hospitality, not just for a day or a week but years, some even almost a decade now. Whomever the Lord sends to stay with us we just amen the Lord's arrangement. In fact, till date we have not lived alone as a family, as we always have someone staying with us. Even as the Lord blesses and our family grows, now with three children, still the Lord keeps sending someone or the other to stay with us. Now we are very much used to it and also enjoyed the Lord's blessing that comes in disguise. The reality was, when the proposal for such hospitality came up, we considered from many angles, sometimes, heartbreaking with no amicable solution, but we just accepted the Lord's arrangement without any arrangement from our side, as we did not know how to either. And finally, all of them turn out to be blessings in disguise; not just spiritually, but physically and psychologically too.
The recent one was my niece coming to stay with us for her further education besides two other saints already staying with us. Now this has brought in a family revival. My relationship with my own siblings, especially my elder sister, became sweeter as we prayed together, lived and ate together. Real blending and building is taking place among us. I had many good and valid reasons to not accept this hospitality request initially, but the Lord impressed me deep within not to express any opinion but let things happen as He leads. So my wife and I just left the matter to the Lord. Now, the sky is clear, the Lord has made all necessary arrangement and now we enjoy the corporate living together.
Moreover, there are two other sisters who are temporarily sharing hospitality with us. Despite our limited facility and capacity, still we could arrange and get along. This is a training and perfecting lesson for me and my wife, even as we are serving the Lord. The real service is in practicality besides spiritual shepherding.
In fact, this is one of the answers to the prayer I made two years ago when fasting and prayer on 31 December night. Because I felt we were very weak in hospitality and wanted to improve in this matter, but did not know how. Gradually, we found ourselves giving hospitality to many, by living a corporate family life together.
Lord, enlarge our capacity! Make us as hospitable as You would desire so.
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