The Lord's Leading

Four years have elapsed since my family has not visited Taipei, Taiwan, my in-law's place. This year, as a family trip, we planned a visit. And in this planning, we experienced the Lord in a subjective way.

Initially, the plan was to visit Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, and Hong Kong on our way to Taipei. I did the fellowship with the local brothers concerning our visit and the brothers welcomed us for churching. But as my wife and I were planning the itinerary we could never come to a conclusion. The matter dragged on for about a month and still all in the air. We could never finalize on any date nor place nor the flight tickets. Everytime we were to finalize we did not have a perfect peace within and felt disturbed within. This experience went on day by day, even week after week.  

Finally, I personally came to realize that it was the hand of the Lord trying to lead us where to go and where not to go. Once I discerned this, I fellowshipped with my wife and made the final deal. The final plan is to focus on the main purpose of visiting our family in Taiwan. Meanwhile, through Hong Kong on transit for a day of church visit. And we got flights that matched this plan our budget too. God is so good and real.

A similar experience is with planning a visit to USA for the upcoming live summer training. The final decision also could not be taken, though my brother coordinating with me told me I could simply go ahead to book the ticket on specific dates. Every time I tried to do so, my inner peace was disturbed, so I kept postponing for weeks altogether. After all necessary fellowships were done I was at peace within. And when I finally booked the ticket, the itinerary was very clear. 

Arrive two days earlier for churching with the church in Irvine and attend the Lord's meeting before the training. Then, attend the summer training for a week with crucial fellowship with the coworkers scheduled for specific matters. To be followed by churching to San Francisco, San Jose and the vicinity of the city. Finally, depart from San Francisco  to New York with a whole day transit period for another fellowship and churching with the church there. All these plans were done with no extra flight tickets charges as the tickets were booked at low cost, I just selected from the available option.

These subjective experiences of the Lord are very sweet and precious. He is the God of big things and small things too. Praise the Lord for His leading!