Mimi & the Cup

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As usual, i've a story for you ....... please enjoy it and feel free to express yourself.....

Mimi was 29 and single. And beautifully endowed; God must have created her on a Sunday. She was born with a silver spoon, and on top of that had a six digit salaried job with a new generation bank in Galápagos Island. The way it was, she had everything going well for her.

But she didn’t become a peacock. She was humble, God-fearing and was a faithful member of her church. She was also close to her pastor, a missionary from New Zealand. She was amiable and never too preoccupied to notice those around her as she went about her duties in church. She was respectful and well mannered.

Though Mimi was single and ripe for marriage, she wasn’t desperate for a husband. When males asked her hand in marriage, she patiently asked them why they thought she was the one for them. They would say sweet things but none had a definite word from God that she was his wife. And she would not marry based on emotions. If she didn’t get a confirmation that the penguin was her husband, she wasn’t going to say yes.

The way it was, Mimi’s husband was going to be a great guy; one that will do exploits on a trans-continental level. Prophetic utterances from the men of God she came across attested to this fact. But who he was, nobody really knew. A section of the camp believed he had to be a very wealthy and influential politician from Africa. Others thought he must be from Corporate Galápagos considering her track records. And then a few were convinced he will be a foreign missionary, probably a grandson to a renowned preachers.

Mimi’s Pastor followed her case closely. He was gratified that a penguin of her reputation would determine to have her marriage God’s way and didn’t mind waiting for her time to fully come. And he was confident that the God he served would not let him down concerning his dear daughter-in-the-Lord.

One Tuesday after a bible study, precisely after a teaching themed “Running with the Vision”, someone asked to see the Pastor. He had an urgent matter he needed to discuss. He was the guy in charge of the church’s power generator.

“The lord has revealed to me who my wife is. He had long told me she was in this church but I didn’t know her. When He eventually showed her to me, my courage failed me to tell anyone. However, He visited me last night and said to me that it was time to run with the vision. Yet I had my reservations. But following today’s message sir, I’m convinced it really is time sir. ”

“Very well then, who is this person that God has said is your wife?” the pastor asked him a little disinterested.

“Mimi” he blurted.

The pastor couldn’t have been more shocked. It couldn’t be. Definitely not. Mimi’s husband is a great man, not a half-educated almost ugly chap that mans a generator and helps out with gardening, and other task that people shy away from, who seemed to have only one pair of shoes, three shirts that have seen better days and a black pant. If there was another pant, only he could tell because the pant he wore indeed looked the same day in day out, week in week out. Certainly he wasn’t the great man spoken of, thought the pastor. So he dismissed the issue with tact. It was encouraged to dream big but sometimes, like in the case before him, people ‘over dream’. His dear generator man surely has a wife prepared for him but categorically not his Mimi.

But then, as the weeks glided by, this pastor became uneasy and finally decided to seek the Lord concerning the issue. Three divine visitations later, the word was established. The generator man was Mimi’s husband. And God wouldn’t be prayed otherwise.

Though the generator chap by job cadre was one of the least workers in church, he was highly valued by heaven. He wasn’t just a faithful child of God but a humble and fervent secret intercessor for the church. He was lowly on the outside but great on the inside. And he was going to go places for the Lord, for his set time was come.

The message wasn’t an easy one to deliver to a beloved daughter-in-the-Lord. Yet he had to. The night the pastor finally told Mimi, there was another shocker waiting.

“Sir, I had known he was my great man. When it was revealed to me three weeks ago, I had prayed for ‘the cup to pass over’ but eventually, I realized it’s God’s will. And I’m going to ‘run with it’”

Today, Mimi is happily married to a penguin once tagged ‘unfit’ but now is a seasoned intercessor with an international prayer ministry. They’re blessed with three biological children (and numerous spiritual children world over. They have a home in the UK but are on the move for God, from one continent to another. And are fulfilled.

Afterthoughts:

The experiences recounted above paints a picture of what must have transpired in Heaven when Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane prayed for ‘the cup’ to pass over Him. The angels and 24 elders may have gathered to pray the Father to heed that prayer so Jesus doesn’t suffer ‘for nothing’. It was going to be a difficult death to behold, yet God, who loved His only begotten son more than those begging for His life loved Him, knew what was best for Him and us too. It must have not made sense for Jesus to die, and even the way he did. Just like it didn’t for Mimi to marry the generator chap. But God had an awesome plan with eternal value. And thankfully, today we have a daddy in Heaven and are joint heirs with Jesus.

There are many things about tomorrow that we do not understand. Regardless, our Father in Heaven has it all under control and will perform and perfect that which concerns us if we let Him.

Sometimes, things don’t happen the way we expect them to. Not everything follows logic, especially God’s plan. As the heaven is far from the earth, so is His way different from our ways.

Someone’s ‘happily ever after’ may depend largely on the content of a character than on the physiological endowments of the same.