Things seemed to be hold for such a long time and so I often
felt like asking God for sign. I wanted to know what I had to do to move
forward. I wanted to know if I was getting in His road. I wanted to know how
long it was going to be before something happened.
Each time that I felt like asking God for the sign I would
remember another lady and the lesson she taught me about asking God for
signs.
Her life, at the time, was on
hold while they waited for a property sale to go through and the move to their
new place. There just seemed to be one hold-up after another and so she asked
God for a sign. She wanted to know how long it would be before they were able
to move into the new place. One day
while they were driving home, she looked up at the sky through the car window;
there was a cloud that caught her attention. It was shaped like a very old
fashioned number four. No one else in the car knew what the significance of
this would be as they had no idea of her prayer or how she wrote her fours.
Now
she still had a problem: was God telling her that they would be moving in four
days; four weeks; four months or even four years. She realised that even though
God had given her a sign she didn't know much more than before.
Many people asked Jesus for signs while He walked on earth
but He spoke to Thomas, who wanted signs, thus the name “Doubting Thomas”
saying: “Thomas, because thou hast seen me thou hast believed, blessed are they
that have not seen, and yet have believed” John 20:29
