Testimony (why not share)

[Tino]

Hello my atheist friends.

I usually share testimonies with my Christian friends, but I thought I might as well share with you guys (and girls).

My intentions are not to coercively "prove" that God exists or even to argue for His existence from this...but rather just to share.

I'm currently on a work trip, yesterday I was in Huntsville, AL and today I am in Collegedale, TN. After arriving in Collegedale with a long day of work behind me I wanted nothing more than to just eat and sleep.

However, I felt strangely compelled to go to a coffee shop that I had heard about in downtown Chattanooga (Rembrandt). I didn't want to go as I was exhausted so I just rationalized the impulse away as weird and proceeded to a local Thai restaurant with plans to head on back to the hotel afterwards.

It just kept bugging me though, I felt like the Lord wanted me to go and I would be disobeying the Lord if I didn't go. So...I grudgingly headed downtown towards the coffee shop.

When I got there, I didn't know what to do, I didn't see anyone I knew, I didn't feel like I was suppose to talk to anyone.

I bought a cup of tea and felt impressed to sit at a table that was away from the crowd in a corner.

I felt stupid for being there....I argued with God and told Him that I'm only going to stay there only as long as it takes to finish the tea.

I sat, and sat, and sat.....as I reached the final sip of my tea...still nothing.

Then I heard it, a couple had sat down directly behind me and they were having a "troubled" discussion. I felt the Lord say to me, "This is why you are here."

I told the Lord, "I don't know what to say...I'm going to look ridiculous or offend them or something terrible!"

He told me, "trust in me and I will give you words."

I stood up, approached their table and apologized for the awkwardness. I told them that I'm just traveling through town and I felt impressed by the Lord to come to that coffee shop and that I had something to say to them.

I turned to the man (it was a man and women in their mid 20s) and said, "You know what you're suppose to be doing, trust in the Lord and He will provide. You don't need to know all of the details, you know the next step to take, trust God and He will provide with all the details."

The man brightened up and shook my hand. He had been on the fence about deciding whether or not to go into ministry. They thanked me and I left the coffee shop, gladly headed back to the hotel and had a wonderful nights sleep.

God gave you the words? God doesn't understand the difference between suppose and supposed? Those were your words, as your misuse of the word (once in your words, once in god's) proves.

Why didn't god just speak to the guy thinking about going into the ministry, or to the girl? I know, I know, god works in mysterious....fuck that, tell god to send food to people who are starving instead of sending you into a coffee shop for tea.

And god told you to go to the coffee shop, and you had the temerity to tell god that you were only going to stay long enough to finish your tea? You're telling us that you were in a conversation with God, the entity that you think created you and will judge you, and provide you with eternal life, and instead of being incredibly excited to be speaking with god and doing some task for him, your attitude was "well, only if we can wrap this up before I finish my tea?". Do you realize how incredibly inconsistent your beliefs and story are?