What's Next? (part 1)

Rick was sitting at the first row in the class yet he wasn’t following the discussion. It was the last days of the last academic semester. Everyone was preparing for the next big thing in life. He wasn’t sure there was any big thing after college. the occupying question while he sat at that front row was ‘what's next’? He’d struggled a lot through life. He knew if something good has to happen to him again there had to be some miracle. He barely had a chance of surviving in life considering his background and little privileges. The truth is something needs to happen. He’d some fear and uncertainty about the near future.  In the past ten years nothing worthwhile outside being a student had happen to him. He had some mix of fear and faith. He’d been a little of a serious Christian and wasn’t sure if anything going through his mind now has to do with religion. If there is anything he was sure of it was that he needed answers, and if he has to be ahead or keep pace with his colleagues he needed a miracle. He could still remember the testimony of a junior colleague that challenged him. He needed a similar experience next thing. He needed some big powers to move things his direction.

A Christian youth doing internship (industrial training) with a multinational oil company shares his testimony of how he simply lived his Christian faith. He said during his industrial training as an undergraduate, during the breaks he had find a corner to pray quietly. This was his habit as a man of the faith. One of those days during prayer someone became interesting and said ‘brother can we pray together’? well, he agreed and they began to pray during the breaks. So afterwards another person joined, then another and before long it was a prayer group. It turned out that by the time the brother was done with his industrial training the group was a Christian fellowship of staffs. The same brother had added that he was doing evangelism after work in the staff bus every day. He really wasn’t sure someone was blessed, not until the driver had told him the staffs like listening to news on their way from work and that he should consider putting a break on the bus evangelism. The result of that incident prove that some staffs preferred the bus evangelism to the radio. God gave him a heart for diligence and excellence that he was loved even by the unit manager and his supervisor and all the staffs. The company wouldn’t let him go if not that he was an intern. During his departure he was given a huge sum outside the regular salary and asked to return as soon as he is done with his degree programme. [to be contd]