After work, I decided to go to fellowship dinner that was held at Google. I have been looking forward to meeting other Christians and have great conversations. Yet when I walked into the room, I honestly wanted to turn around and walk out. There were five other men who were a bit older than me. Great. Guys tend to be not the best conversation starters. So I sat there eating my dinner and asking myself why I was even there. Then, the guy who initiated the whole dinner started sharing his story about how he met his wife.
At first, he mentioned that when he first saw her, he just wanted to hook up with her…when he was really distant from the Lord. Cool. Not awkward at all. Especially when the other four guys were listening carefully. Me? I quietly stuffed my food in and thought to myself when would be the perfect time to leave.
But then, he started sharing how he drew closer to the Lord and they happened to meet again at another conference. To be honest, it was really refreshing to hear his story. He was very honest if not blunt. He said he just knew she was the one after meeting her for the third time. Then, all the guys started asking him questions. ”How did you know she was the one?” ”You mean you just knew when you first saw her?” etc etc. And at that point, I kinda laughed. They were so funny to me because I have never encountered this scene yet it was pretty familiar. I just thought only girls would talk about this topic in that way. And not having been surrounded by older Christian men, I thought this meeting was the most interesting one I attended at Google so far.
Then, he said something that really struck me. He said that there is no need for guys to date around to find the right girl. In Genesis, God created Eve when Adam was asleep. And likewise, he was saying that God will eventually place their wives into their lives. At this point, I didn’t know what to think. What he said sounded so familiar. That’s what I have been hearing for the past four years. But what struck me was the fact that men were having the same discussion.
And then we moved onto other topics like IHOP, basing our faith on the gospel etc. What surprised me was that even though I have been so shy for the past four weeks at work, I wasn’t shy at all in this meeting. Here I am sitting with a group of older men and voicing my opinion. And that was just as refreshing.
But a clear message that I think God tried to send me today was to trust Him with all things. As I rushed out of the dinner to catch a shuttle, I was getting anxious because the shuttle didn’t come. It was 10 minutes late, which usually doesn’t happen. And I happened to see a friend on the shuttle. He asked me about my housing situation and I started getting worried about it. I was thinking what I should do if I don’t get the apartment. Then as I was about to get off the shuttle, he told me that BART was going to come in 5 minutes. I said I was going to run to catch it. He said if it’s meant for me to catch it then I will. If not, I can just wait another twenty minutes. But of course being me, I ran anyway. Yet as I was walking back home, I realized how God has been telling me to trust Him with all things today. Everything. From catching the Bart to finding a husband. Things won’t always work out the way I want it to work out. But He has everything under control. And as I am writing this blog, I just realized what another guy said at the dinner. He said that because we live in a finite world where we have a set time, we tend to think God is limited in that way as well. But God is infinite. He surpasses time and space.
Today was a good day. Because God has been speaking the same message through so many people and so many incidents. If you read this far, good for you. haha just kidding. Now it’s time for bed already…but God is good. By the way, I think I am moving to Sunnyvale because He provided. I am gonna miss Berkeley.
