I love this photo! Caught in the act of worship 🙌💞
This was such a beautiful evening, but the events that preceded it were not:
I got the invite as a guest 👩🏫 to speak at this Fresher's Night and Academic Empowerment Summit by my Church's Campus Fellowship not too long before the day; I was quite busy in the interim. After confirming I'll be there, I got an email for a meeting scheduled to hold at a time that'll clash with this event. "Dear Lord, what should i do?" I kindly requested for the meeting to be rescheduled and thank God the request was approved; new time was some hours before this event. Perfecto, right? Hmn...
The meeting ended up not going as well as I thought it would and I literally wanted to cry. The song "Don't Cry" by Kirk Franklin started 'playing' in my heart. I was informed that I'll officially hear the outcome of the meeting later in the day or latest, within the next 24 hours; it would literally take a miracle to get a positive outcome, that was my personal assessment of the meeting. I focused on my work in the interim and later, got an email about the meeting and it was not good news.
A flood of thoughts went through my mind; this day was supposed to be filled with good news from two major events: the meeting and the opportunity to inspire young people but argh. Ah well...🚶♀️. I left work early (got permission) and on arriving home, spent hours praying and got ready for this event. Got there right on time and joined in the worship.
Fast forward, time to speak had come.
I was initially allocated twenty minutes but I didn't stop (neither was I stopped) till nearly an hour later (i didn't even realise time had gone by that fast). God clearly took the glory, used me as a vessel to bless His children and we enjoyed ourselves 🙃.
I think I felt similar to what Paul felt in 1 Corinthians 16:9 GNT: "There is a real opportunity here for great and worthwhile work, even though there are many opponents." The chief opponent being clearly the devil who wanted me to mess up the rare chance to impact others, but I thank God whose grace upheld me.
Stuff happens...that. is. life. However, what we choose to do afterwards would contribute to our outcomes, positive or negative. Choose wisely!
Despite the bad news in the afternoon, I chose to look to God, avail myself, and dwell on the honour given me to speak at this event in the evening of which over three hundred attended (feedback was amazing to God's glory), rather than enjoy a poor old me pity party, where I would probably have given myself a headache due to tears, possible monosyllabic answers to anyone who crosses my path, a whole lot of emotionally-fuelled reactions that probably wouldn't have been edifying and messed up this rare privilege afforded me. Thank God for grace!
Oh, remember the negative outcome of the meeting? It definitely worked out for good. I got a better offer...way, way better 💃💃💃. GLORY TO GOD!
Unpleasant situations come to us all; one way we can make the best of such is by mastering it, as opposed to letting it get the best of us.© Lydia Ndagilaya
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