God is faithful

I can’t believe that this was my last actual Diakonos outing. I wish I had more time with our ministry team and also with the homeless. This outing really reminded me of why I joined Diakonos in the first place – to trust in God. I signed up because I was convicted to take a leap of faith. And it was a pretty big leap because I could hardly speak English, I had some bad experience with some homeless people and I was (am still) awkward with strangers. But I trusted in God to use me regardless of my abilities. Today I was convicted to trust in God to change lives regardless of others’ circumstances.

Albs and I ran into this guy called Mike who was struggling with alcohol. He never quite realized that he was an alcoholic until it was too late. He ended up losing his job. Despite knowing how alcohol can only pull him further down, he relied on it to run away from reality. More so than ever he was addicted to it. As I listened to him talking about his family and his work, I sensed that deep down Mike really wanted everything to go back to where it used to be – with his wife and his children. But then he was so helpless; he couldn’t do anything to fix his own life. Running out of ideas of what to do, he used alcohol as an outlet. We invited him to pray with us at first, and he refused to come because he thought that he was not worthy or not good enough. But then he decided to join after a bit and let us pray for him.

I would like to think that he gained strength after receiving prayer to fight the temptation. At least he wasn’t so adamant about falling back to alcohol again. He told us that He really needed the prayer and He would try to seek God again and start praying. He told me he was willing to try to be sober. I noticed how he said “try to” all the time. I know that he doesn’t have full conviction and the strength to do this but I know part of him is moved. The seed is planted. With situations like this, I can only pray for faith to trust in God to work in Mike’s life. Mike has some really good friends too who are willing to pray with him and hopefully can keep him accountable and help him persevere through this period. God is faithful even though we are faithless. I really believe that God is moving in Mike somehow. If you are reading this, please keep Mike in your prayers.


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