Last Friday, I suddenly decided to visit home (Pangada) as we had just two hours of class that day and the next day was completely free. I reached home had a heavy lunch which was cooked by my loving aunt and went off to sleep. I got up around 4 o clock in the evening and went out to take back my clothes which I had hung on the string in the sun. I then heard a voice coming from the front of the house near the car. I turned and saw this lean but tall man looking at me. He asked me if my father was around. I then called out to my uncle who met him. He was a sales man for an inverter company and had come to deliver the inverter with the battery which my uncle had just ordered. I did not pay much heed to what happened and I went along doing my work. Two days later (Sunday) my elder brother (who surprised us by suddenly appearing in my aunt’s house from Chennai where we all had gathered for a prayer meeting) came home and my uncle was talking to him about the inverter. While doing so he told us the short story of Tom (Name changed) the sales man from then inverter company.
Tom’s father worked for a government run steel company in the north of India. He died when Tom was a boy. His mother then lived with someone else which was not liked by her children. Tom’s younger siblings all managed to get married and managed to find their way in life. His mother too is now comfortably settled somewhere in Kottayam. Tom did not like his mother for what she did and has kept his distance from her. Currently he is working for this inverter company earning 8000 a month.
Tom had first approached the parish priest of our church, to convince him to sell an inverter to the church. The priest then referred him to my uncle who was a senior church leader and who was responsible to take such decisions. But my uncle realized that the church did not have the extra funds needed to make this purchase. But seeing this man my uncle had this strong feeling that he must buy an inverter from him. He then in just an hour’s time decided to buy the inverter for the house and paid Tom Rs 2500 in advance for the Rs 14,000 inverter. Tom then told him the situation he was in.
He at that point did not have any money at all. He did not even have the money to buy his next meal. He also had to pay his house rent that day itself and if he did not pay that amount he would have had to vacate the house the next day. He was in a desperate situation. He has no family to help him and no one to loan him some money. Desperate for money he went to the church and prayed to GOD almighty that he should make one sale that day which will help him stay afloat. And at the end of the day when my uncle actually made the purchase and had given him the advance, he thanked GOD immediately. My uncle was moved by his story. Tom then left, went and payed his rent, and had a good meal and came back with the inverter and delivered it. He offered a discount of 2500 on the invertor. But my uncle I think took only a 1000 rupees discount.
After my uncle had narrated the story, he said that it was GOD who had made him buy that inverter. He said that he had never felt the need for an inverter until Tom met him. It was just a feeling in the heart of my uncle which made him buy that inverter. Today morning, I was looking into the book of Ephesians in the bible. Verse 11 of the first chapter which said that God makes sure this plans takes place and that everything in this world and in our life happens in conformity with his will struck me and immediately I was reminded of Tom and my uncle. God indeed has his ways planned. God uses us to help someone in need. I think we just need to grateful to God for what we have and listen to his call in our heart when he wants to use us to help others. This incident gave me lot of strength and faith in God. Hope it will bless you too.
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