Was that God? - God's Direction part II

A couple of nights after Wendy prayed for “new eyes” (see the previous blog entry), I was tired and getting ready for bed. Suddenly, as if straight out of the night sky, a weird thought came to my mind. It was about me doing medical screenings at the Oasis community (a poor neighboring community where we do evangelism and dish out a meal three times a week). When I say “medical screening”, I mean thing such as taking people’s blood pressure or doing a finger stick to see if a person’s glucose (sugar) is high. I was thinking that maybe I could go with the Oasis team once a month or so and check blood pressures or whatever, and maybe do some simple teaching. The ideas continued to readily flow. Perhaps I could come up with some simple Spanish teachings about blood pressure and other common conditions. Or maybe I could find and show a simple Spanish DVD about blood pressure that could be watched as the folks wait in line for me to take their blood pressure. (These are readily available at home, I just don’t know where to find it here.) I thought it was strange for these sorts of very clear ideas to suddenly occur just as I was preparing for bed. And I wondered if I’d be allowed to add this new project among my current projects and responsibilities looming large on my desk.

“Was that God?” I thought to myself. Are these ideas from Him or me? I got on my knees and asked God to tell me if these ideas were from Him. I didn’t get an answer, but I felt a strange combination of peace, wonder and a bit of excitement of these new thoughts. Then, finally, I went to bed.