Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Story Time :)

I layed awake in my bed. I couldn't clear my mind enough to fall asleep. I never have issues sleeping. "Ugh, I guess I might as well go on facebook" I thought... I mean, what else am I going to do at 12:30 in the morning?
I grabbed my laptop and logged onto facebook. "No notifications... I guess I'll just stalk my homepage" I thought. As I scrolled down the page my heart sank as I read posts from a facebook friend who had her boyfriend cheat on her. I had never really talked to this girl in real life or on facebook. I prayed for her that she could look to God during her situation.
I decided that I wanted her to know that I was praying for her because I always like to hear that people are praying for me. I felt weird writing the message but I could feel God pushing me to talk to her. The message I wrote looks somewhat like this:

"Hey, I've been reading your statuses and I just wanted you to know that I'm praying for you! I know you don't know me very well but if you ever just need someone to talk to I'm here! There's someone better out there for you. I don't know if you believe in God but just know that He cares for you very deeply and has someone specially designed just for you :):)
Well, thanks for reading a message from someone you barely know. I hope this makes you feel somewhat better :):)".

Her response made me cry. She told me that she didn't even know me and she felt like I cared more than her friends did. It made me really thankful for my friends and gave me an opportunity to be a friend to someone who really needs one.

I look back on this and think "Wow." God kept me awake that night because He wanted me to talk to this girl. He filled my head with thoughts that I couldn't get out of my mind that kept me awake. Instead of leading me to go watch TV, read or do some other thing; He lead me to facebook? I don't know about you but I never really thought that facebook would turn out to be a place to witness to people. God works in amazing ways and it's breathtaking to see His movement so obvious.

Since this has happened, I have been looking for reasons to witness to people over facebook. I have wanted to be a missionary for a long time and I had always invisioned myself somewhere in Africa and I think that looking so far ahead caused me to stop looking at what I can be doing now.

I encourage the people who read this... if anyone ever decides to look at this blog... to look for areas where you can witness to people. Some people might look at this and think I'm trying to conform people to my beliefs. That is sort of true, I'll admit it... but the way I look at it, it's not just getting people to believe what I believe; it's honestly God working through me to save you from selling your soul to an eternity in hell.

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