Hi, I am an engineer n i finished my coll this year... When i look back to my 4 years in my coll, i jus wonder n cherish the Love of God towards me n my family. I would like to share one great incident happened in my life,(well it was great n awesome for me, to see God's love like that). My college is surrounded with hills, it looks so beautiful, as it says even if it has its beauty, it also had certain negative things too. That area got a kind of insect which is no where found, well people frm my coll, knows better. its local word is KARUNYA POOCHI( it is found only in karunya,(tat is my coll name), tats y it is named like tat and in tamil 'poochi' means insect). Its scientific name is "Paederus Fuscipes" and it is famous for its poisonous bite. few pictures of d insect
hmmm i think there will be very few fortunate people who have not bitten by this insect. It actually does not bite, it spills out something which is acidic n if it is there on our skin, it will burn that part of our body. It will look as if you had an acid attack. This sounds little weired, but it is more worse when u see people bitten by it. First u will hav a burning feeling, den tat part gets swollen, n at times spreads(people say depends on the blood group, i have no idea about tat, but it do vary from people to people) and then the burning sensation increases day by day, as i said it varies from people, but this is wat i felt. Later it becomes a dark scar, n takes days to heal n still after getting healed, the mark will take time to get cleared.
This what happens to a person, if this insect bites and i was always fortunate to get this bite (well i want to say it like this way, as bcoz of this i came to kno God's love for me more). I have shared this with few of my friends and i want others also to know wat God did in my life. And i am pretty much famous among my peers with this karunya poochi, everyone will remember me, wen they talk abt this poochi :)
From my 3rd year, i started getting its bite, trust me, it is so painful and burning, wen one wound was getting healed, i'll get another one... ( but this was seasonal, as it will come when the climate is little chilled-more often- around December to February). i never bothered abt this, it pained but never cried or felt bad for it and it bit very often, my friends use to ask me , y only you? hmmm well i didn hav any answer for that, but i always believed that watever happens,happens with God's will. One day came, wen my patience was lost somewhere, and i started asking God, Y Lord?
At the starting of this year, in January, this insect bit on both of my eyes.Eyes are the most delicate part of your body, more care is taken for it, the next morning wen i got up, my eyes were totally swollen, after some time, it started burning, i went to college, came back, saw myself in the mirror, could't recognize myself, my face was totally swollen, cant touch the area near my eyes, my eyes were watering from time to time, over that the burning sensation was becoming more stronger, which was unbearable, i hav got many bites, but this was out of the limit. wen people saw me, they sympathized, pitied, some asked y you? On all this i never asked God y? but on that day i asked God y Lord? y only me? There were times wen people saw me crying and i would say "no my eyes are watering", but literally at times i was crying with lot pain physically and mentally, which went out of my eyes as water. Night i could't sleep, bcoz of the increasing burning sensation, next day wen i was meditating from bible and praying, Lord just told me one thing " Merlin, in future, you are going to face lot of sadness, lot of pains which are more unbearable than this, many days will come where u'll jus cry and cry, I don want to see u like that, so I am taking all those pains and sadness and instead I am giving u this small pain, which I know u can bear it". At that time i told God Okie and again i told Lord i don know, to what extend, i can bear it, but Lord i believe You.
Two days passed by, it was a Saturday, still my wound didn get healed. And i called my Dad and my Mom picked the call, i asked her, how come u are picking the call, she hesitated to tell me that my Dad had a heart attack last night, i was shattered there, tears started rolling from my wounded eyes, which became more painful, but it could't compete with the pain i had wen i heard abt my Dad, i was totally broken, never in my life me or my family have ever thought, something like this will happen to my Dad. I told my friends to pray abt it and i asked God, Lord u told me that You are taking my sadness away, and Why my Dad had this? At that time i didn get any answer, i was continually praying for my Dad, still he was in hospital, under observation, i forgot abt other things and i spent time for praying for my Dad, things became normal, my Dad went through an angioplasty, he was discharged, by God's grace and he came back home, i was really happy on that day, and i thanked God, on that night i sat to pray, then Lord told me "Merlin, i told u that, i will take all your pain, instead of the insect bite, and I did it too, if I want i would have taken your Dad from u, but I didn, I know u love him so much, so I am giving him back to u "
Then i realized, the reason for all this, my eyes were watering, God already took out all the tears which i was supposed to shed, through a" karunya poochi", this sounds strange and weired, but this is the true experience of my life , where i learned that God takes care of each and every single thing of our life, if He gives u, any kind of pain, which will discourage u to the core, just remember one thing, he does only to strengthen u, not to shame u or not to give u pain, but to teach u to stand firm and to bear that pain.
As it says in Psalm 17:8 - Keep me as the apple of Your eye; He has kept me as the apple of His eye, He takes care of me so much. Like this Jesus loves u all, U might have many problems, no matter how big it is, but in God's eyes its nothing, He keeps us in His eyes, not our problems, so just imagine, how much he loves us, so then will He not take care of our problems too??? U just have to submit it in His presence, remaining he will take care. Later when u sit and think abt ur problems after getting solved, u will sit and smile to yourself and say to Lord, " Lord i was so silly to worry abt such a small matter :) ". try it it really works, its that simple.
Don make your problems complex, instead submit it to God, He will make it simple for u.
Hi readers, if u really liked my post and have got encouraged , its my humble request to forward this to your friends, not bcoz i want publicity, just bcoz people want God in there life.
God bless You all abundantly...
Be blessed and be a blessing for others.
thank you
Merlin
