A Miraculous Intervention

A friend of mine attended his engineering counselling last Friday, and a miracle had happened on that day...

This is how it happened...

Dhinu completed his board exams this March. His parents never studied beyond standard VIII, and his sister was supporting the family with a job, so she could only study a course by correspondence.

His parents wanted him to do his engineering...

The results came out a month back and Dhinu had scored only 60% marks. We were disappointed. Our faith was staggering. But we believed that God had a plan for Dhinu, through this also.

Trusting God with the results, we did our part. We prayed fervently, we also inquired about different colleges and the courses they offered. We also applied to various colleges. (We din't simply trust god and do nothing. We did what could to get into a good college. We did our best and trusted God for the rest).

We wanted Dhinu to join my college. It's a nice place to study with good campus placements. When we thought about it, we felt it was convenient in every way. I asked him to apply and he did.

Meanwhile, another college was willing to admit him into a course he didn't want to do. It was a good course, and we wondered what to do. If he joined that course, he would not be able to attend counselling and do engineering.

His mom, in faith, asked him to wait for the counselling.

I had shortlisted some 30-40 good colleges for the counselling.

Dhinu's counselling happened last Friday, and when we tracked the seats on the preceding Wednesday, we felt dejected because not only there were no seats available in my college, but also no seats were available in the 30+ colleges I had suggested him.

We had set our hearts upon it, and our faith was shaking...

I was pained to tell him that seats were not available in those colleges. Dhinu took it very calmly (which in itself is a gift from God). I asked him to come home the next day so we could check again.

Normally, students join a good college, or a sister institution of that college(Normally the sister institutions of the top colleges are also very good, and usually have the same name as the top college). Even the sister institutions of the colleges I had suggested were all taken up.

He came home the next day, and we said a short prayer and went over the list again.

Same results - all seats were taken up. I couldn't even bring myself to say some word of comfort. What hope could I offer him when we were seeing all the facts on the screen?

Then a friend of his called up and asked us to check a new college. We checked. It had the same name as one of the top 5 colleges. Some colleges have the same name as a top college to just try to fool students into joining them, but they aren't good colleges.

So I thought, this was another of those colleges, trying to fool us.

We checked again. It not only had the same name, but also the same address as the top college.(Usually the colleges and their sister institutions are located within the same campus)..

This was no doubt,a sister institution!!!

We checked the seat availability. 10 seats were available in the course Dhinu wanted.

We couldn't believe what was happening.

Again, we did our part. We did what every student should do before attending counselling. We considered all the options, made a list of the colleges and courses we wanted, ordered our preferences this way and that, and came up with our preference list at 11 in the night.

Trusting God, Dhinu left for the counselling the next day.

As he sat waiting outside, he saw the 10 seats decrease in number, and finally stop at 2 before he went inside.

He told the man his preference and waited.

Yes!!! Seats were available, and Dhinu got admitted into a very good college, that too, in the course he desired.

He came home that evening and gave me the allotment letter. I was looking at no ordinary sheet of paper, but at the miracle God had done for us.

We had different plans. I wouldn't have even believed in my wildest imaginations that Dhinu would get into a good college for the marks he got. But God in His faithfulness, surprised us by blessing us beyond our expectations, beyond our comprehension...

I believe God chose his marks to work in Dhinu's life. I see a different boy now. Someone who's tasted God's faithfulness and knows it, someone who trusts God to intervene on His behalf... Someone who knows that NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR GOD!!!

My faith has also strengthened after seeing God intervene in Dhinu's life, and I believe yours too will...

God bless you!