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Something
I have hoped and prayed for has, at last, been answered! It concerns my older
brother, and I am so grateful that God has chosen to reach him…

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I was still asleep at 8am (having a merry old snooze) when mum burst in and pulled
open the blinds.
    “Are you awake? I have something to tell you. Wake up!”
    Apparently, my older brother (in a moment of total weakness)
went for a walk last night to the oval and began yelling at God to ’show Himself’.

I should tell you a bit about my brother.
    As far as I know he has always fought against God. If you had
asked me what I’d thought of my brother yesterday, I would have said (unhappily)
that he was selfish, rude, arrogant, misguided and totally without hope (he agreed
with me when I told him this last night).
    Now, that sounds so harsh, I know, but it’s the truth! I’ve
grown up with him and I’ve watched his spiritual growth (or rather, his rejection
of it) and I have prayed for him without really expecting anything to change.
I know it was wrong of me to have so little faith that God could never — or maybe,
WOULD never — reach him.
    My brother has always been the sort to suffer without asking
for help; to only focus on his own desires. I’ve been so worried about him because
he has lost a LOT of money gambling, he often goes out to look for empty fun in
nightclubs (returning home miserable and drunk), his car has been smashed recently
(rendering it undriveable — he’s lucky he wasn’t killed!), he’s had his wallet
stolen, he’s isolated himself from the rest of the family, etc, etc… And through
all this I’ve hoped he would (perhaps – pray, pray) turn to God for guidance.
But his ‘there’s only me’ attitude seemed only to grow from these incidences,
with useless attempts being made by me to help him turn to God. I wanted him to
see that perhaps God was testing him — but nothing seemed to change. There
is no God! God is something you create in a state of meditation. There is only
you and the world.
    Still, I prayed…

Back to this morning…
    My mum told me that he went to the oval to attack God (he has
done this before)… and that this time God answered…
    I was nearly in tears when I heard this. The story from my
brother was that God told him not to yell at Him in the park, and that he should
learn to read the Bible.
    So that’s just what he did! And he reported to my dad this
morning that he found the peace he so desperately needed in the Bible. Praise
God!

Please understand, this is something huge for me to get my head around because
my brother has never wanted to read the Bible before — especially not
after being told to by God Himself! I haven’t spoken to him yet… I wonder if
he’ll speak to me about this.

But in the meantime, I’ll continue to pray (this time with renewed energy and
much, MUCH thanks).