Daddy knows… By Zwonaka Netshifulani Yesterday someone stole the food I had stored in the communal fridge in the kitchen of my residence. Yes, I cried. You don’t budget for stolen food, you know. Despite telling my friends about it and them trying to comfort I kept crying. A few minutes later, I decided I wanted to sleep but decided to tell my dad about it. So I sent him a Whatsapp text: ‘Daddy they stole my food!’ I complained. When I went to sleep however, the tears had stopped and I was absolutely calm because my situation was not so sad because now daddy knew about it. He only responded this morning. In his response however, he did not offer to send me money to replace the food, nor did he offer to come down from Bloemfontein and buy the fridge the exact same day. The first message he sent actually had no solution to my problem. But I was still calm and still tearless because daddy knew that they had stolen his baby girl’s food. I remained calm throughout the entire day, despite the food still being stolen, and the thief still walking around with my food in his/her tummy while I had to make extra arrangements for more food to replace what he/she had stolen. I was still calm without the prospect of my own fridge in the near future. I was calm because daddy knew. I was calm because I can actually tell daddy. And as I sat reading my dad’s response the Holy Spirit whispered in my ear ‘Exactly’. Here’s what I learnt: 1. The best thing about prayer is not the immediate granting of your request, it is that prayer exists at all. You have the capacity to vocalize the pain the devil has caused you and the guarantee of a loving and concerned Father on the other end. 2. Pray about it before you talk about it. Some of our issues don’t get resolved coz we run around telling everyone BUT the God who knows how to fix the solution. Send your issues to the One in charge. 3. Let God frame the solution. Not you. My solution would have been to make the thief pay for my food. My dad’s solution was to buy me a fridge. See which one’s better? My solution fixes the issue for now, but doesn’t guarantee that someone else won’t steal the food again some other time. 4. Sometimes the things that affect and hurt you are none of your business. Move out of the way and let God take the devil on. He’s won every battle with the devil since the before the start of the world. 5. After you have told your Father thula. Stop crying. You’ve told Him haven’t you? He knows. No father worth the name keeps calm when he knows his child is upset. He doesn’t rest easy until his child’s peace is restored. Until he has sorted out the bully, bandaged the wound, replaced the food, wiped the tears. The minute the devil made God’s very first child (Adam) cry or feel pain, God had already made a plan to not only bandage the wound, but to restore complete health. Not only to replace the food, but to take away the hunger pangs. Not only to sort out the bully, but to destroy him. Daddy knows…
Posted on: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 15:45:41 +0000
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