Twenty Years of God's Grace

Twenty years have elapsed since the Lord called me to serve Him full-time. It was December 31 night 2002 when in my Selaiyur Hostel I was burdened to pray just for one thing, "Lord, what is Your will for my life?" I had no appetite for food nor for anything else except prayer. At about 5 PM in the afternoon I left my hostel for the prayer hall at Tambaram East. There I attended the evening prayer meeting and after everyone left, I requested the caretaker of the premise to allow me to stay the whole night as I wanted to pray and pray. There, I was the only person in the meeting hall. The whole night I walked through the length and breadth of the campus over and over again, just praying for one thing, God’s will.

I was to graduate from my MCA degree in a few months' time. I need to make a decision for my life. I had three choices before me; job, PhD, or full-time service. As a student of MCA, campus recruitment started and in fact, I got a call letter for interview from two software companies even without my applying for it. But the Lord did not lead me at all for software engineering job. Neither did the Lord lead me for PhD studies though one of my teachers suggested and promised to help me out. Therefore, I was all the more troubled what I was supposed to do. This led me to pray and pray and pray. Thank God, I knew only one way, prayer. Perhaps, that's the best way!

After the whole night prayer on 31st December night 2002, on 1st Jan 2003 the Lord’s call came through my reading of the Bible after my prayer.

“And now, O Israel, what does Jehovah your God ask of you except that you fear Jehovah your God so that you would walk in all His ways and love Him and serve Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul;” (Deuteronomy 10:12, RecVer)

As His call was, so His leading has always been the best. Till today, He has been faithfully leading me in His full-time service. What a blessing! What a privilege!

When He called me, I was just 24, stepping out of University with a Master's degree in Computer Science. Now, I am a married man with three blessed children. Still He has been gracing me and blessing me in His service. What else can I say but, "Thank You, Lord Jesus!"

Twenty years of service in His vineyard, twenty years of enjoying His blessing, twenty years of learning and perfecting. Twenty years of God’s grace. Thank You Lord Jesus for all these twenty Years of experiencing and enjoying You!