Few days ago I finished reading a
book that really blessed my heart and the author emphasizes the need for us to realize
daily that “God has no hands to heal except through our hands. He has no voice
to encourage except through our voice. He has no arms to hug except through our
arms. God will bring people across our path so that we can be the answer to
their prayer.” That is exactly how I feel this morning when a group of students
bumped into my study room at Westerville Public Library.
What’s so funny was
that, I did not had any room reservation at the library today, I just wanted to
go in and do some writing on my new book that is coming out soon. On getting to
the library around 9:10am, I asked if there is any room I can use and was told
by the librarian that all the rooms are booked. Then she checked again and
said, “There is a room that if the person did not show up by 9:15am, then we
can put you in there.” I was excited but at the same time nervous as I sat
there looking at the clock that the person will show up few seconds to the
time. Guess what? No one came!
I was in the room for about an
hour when these awesome students strolled in to the library and for some
reason, some of them saw me from afar in my enclosed room. “Hey Professor King,
can we come and share the room with you? We need to study and we need some quiet
as a group”. It was such a joy to vacate the room for them even though the
librarian said they can only allow seven people in that room, “but for today
only, we will allow all of you”, the librarian added.
The morale of the story, what of
if reserving that room in the morning was not even about me? What of if God had
seen how challenging it will be for some of those students not to have those
few hours together as a group? What of if my going to that library today was an
answer to one of those students’ prayer?
Hear me friends, make it a daily
prayer that God should make you a solution to someone’s challenge no matter how
little and in spite of what you might be going through. You may not be able to
help everyone, but you can always help someone!
