An Impromptu Meeting

Yesterday, as we were eating our lunch the general manager of the campus came and introduced their founding director who chanced to visit the campus for some reason. I had the privilege to listen to him at the dinning hall. After lunch, he invited me to his office for more fellowship.

Most of the time I was listening to all he had to say, ranging from how he started serving the Lord,  and how it grew and grew until it became very big with about 20,000 work force. Though it was his success story as a Christian enterprise worker, I was not moved at all. Deep within I took him as a warning not to venture too much into works and turn the service of the Lord into a social organization doing charitable works. That definitely is not my call. I wish to serve the Lord without any mixture whatsoever. I pray that the Lord would preserve me to be pure in heart and pure in motive..

In the meeting, he also mentioned about his biggest "sin" in his entire life; falling into the trap of the enemy in the area where he deemed best to take the stand of integrity and righteousness. The very character he propagated is the very character he fell against. I don't understand why he narrated his failure to a total stranger like me, his child's age, and that too in my meeting with him for the first time. I simply listened and listened and took precautions in ways I need not repeat. I opened myself to learn and learn from the aged and the experienced ones, from their successes and failures too.

When I got the opportunity, I introduced the Holy Bible, Recovery Version and showed him some crucial footnotes that impressed him a lot. I promised to gift him the Holy Bible, Recovery Version officially. I also shared a little bit of my testimony and also answerd his question on how we operates the literature service in India. 

Then, after about two hours' fellowship, I felt the need to stop the meeting. He also sensed that it was time. Therefore, he offered prayers for himself, his burdens, and also for me and my family.

As I was about to leave, he kept repeating his mistake he had committed in some official dealings and expressed his deep regret in his failure in the very matter he firmly stood for, I took the opportunity to let him know that God wanted none of our human endeavor, therefore, He allowed us to fail so that we trust in ourself no more. I quoted Job's life of how God striped and dealt with him to gain Him and also quoted Paul's word that our Christian life should be "no longer I but Christ".

“I am crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.” (Galatians 2:20, RecVer)

I was glad for the open door through him as a well known Christian leaders through whom, perhaps, the ministry books can be introduced and distributed. May the Lord bless our relationship for the furtherance of His divine move.