Lesson from My Niece

Two years ago my niece came to stay with us for her schooling. Though she is my niece, I reckon her as my own daughter and a sister in Christ. She has been blessed by the Lord with good grade and has been a blessing to our family as well. I used to encourage her to study well and wished that she could get into the best college in New Delhi for her college education. But the recent turn of events has shaped my mind in caring for people. 

As a brother, guardian-father, and well-wisher, I deeply desire her to get into the best college in Delhi University. But the cut-off were so high that she could not get the desired subject and the desired college until the third cut-off list. When she finally got one, it was in the top-eight college in DU for her subject. I was a little disappointed and she could not into the college I wished her to, but later accepted the fact and realised that God knows best.

One Lord's day she prophesied in the prophesying meeting too that the Lord dealt with her and gave her the college in south though she wished to be in the north. The Lord is sovereign and amening His arrangement is a great blessing. 

This incident has even changed my view and hope for her. She must continue in her studies, be in the church-life, be trained in the truth for two years, and follow the Lord's further leading.   

Sometimes, when our wards and children are good in studies, its tempting to have a bright academic dream for them without any thought of them needing the Lord more than just a good career. Often, our consideration is education, job, and marriage, first. And much later, serving God or being for the Lord. I am no victim of such dreamer. But the Lord adjusted my thinking, view, goal for my own wards and children. All these things are needed, but the Lord must be first; and through all these things, the Lord's purpose must be served.

This is a simple yet crucial lesson that I learned from caring for my niece. Now the Lord has been blessing my children too academically. I need the Lord's grace to care for them according to God for God's eternal purpose.