Quicker than I thought

Strength and courage for the weary
God’s own hand to guide each day
This and more is for the asking
When we meditate and pray


“Dad, please pray for me. Tomorrow I have to go to Lampung to take care Ranto’s education fund. I’m going there with morning flight” said Mary to John her father. Mary, a seven months pregnant - woman, must go to another city in Sumatra because her husband could not leave his tasks as a Pediatrician student. They’d ever stayed in Lampung for four years, but they moved to Jogjakarta (in Java Island) as Ranto taking the pediatrician college. The flight from Jogjakata must transit in Jakarta for an hour and then continue to Lampung. Meanwhile John her father, prayed for God’s guidance to Mary.


After over night in the official home for a physician she used to live with her family in Lampung, Mary went to the Regent Government Office by bus in that early Friday morning. She used to work in this office, but she asked a transfer to Jogjakarta to accompany her husband. Her plans were meeting the treasurer, clear the fund and going home right away. Apparently, many people got in the line to clear the fund because the treasurer just got back from Solo in Java Island for her sibling’s cemetery for days. Gosh, I could not stay longer here, who will take care my daughters and husband back home...

“Hi Mary, how are you? What are you doing here?” “I’m fine Sir…I have to clear my husband’s education fund” she answered to the Regent Officer when they met. “My husband could not come for himself; he has an urgent task in Jogja. However, Sir, I think I could not get the fund today. The Line was so long in the treasurer’s office. I have to stay longer…” “It’s alright, come with me” the Regent cut her sentence before she finished it. Then they went to the Regent office. After a little chitchat, she got the clearance letter to give to the treasurer to clear the fund.

Thanks God, without You it would not finish so quickly…only a day! I didn’t have to stay longer in Lampung and could go home to Jogjakarta quicker than I thought. God, surely it was You who sent the Regent early in the morning because he didn’t use to come to office so early. Moreover, if I had to get in line, I have to come again on Monday because Friday is a short day, Saturday and Sunday are holidays for Government Office.



I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with My eye (Psalm 32:8)