Postscript

It has been a couple of months since I wrote this sharing about Yahweh God’s amazing work in the months lead­ing up to the planned Israel-Jordan trip. In this postscript, I briefly reflect on God’s purpose in guiding me to the Israel-Jordan trip, only for the trip to be cancelled at the last minute over the Hamas-Israel conflict.

My walk with Yahweh God over the decades has been constantly marked by His amazing work and leading—and by His love for my autistic son Brendon—as can be seen in my earlier sharings, “Embracing The World of Autism with my Autis­tic Son” and “My Amazing Encounters With God”.

God’s interventions in my life have been wondrous, so I usually would not stop to analyse them in detail even if I am un­clear about His purposes behind them, only for me to understand them later in hind­sight.

In the present case, an important clue is that Yahweh God repeatedly instructed me not to tell my son Brendon about the Israel-Jordan trip until the right time. This is starkly contrary to what I would normally do, which is to plan for Brendon for an upcoming trip well in advance. Is it possible that God’s unusual instructions to me reveal that all along He had been taking into account the violence that will come to Israel and Gaza in the days ahead? He certainly foreknew the conflict to come, but He obviously could not reveal it to me yet; moreover, the violent conflict itself is certain­ly against His will and intentions.

Beyond this, I don’t know further God’s ultimate purpose in tell­ing me to enroll for the Israel-Jordan trip, only for the trip to be cancelled. But I do know that everything in my life is in God’s caring hands, and that He repeatedly told me to write about my experience, and that He loves me, and my son Brendon, and my husband Bong. I am also confident that God actually intended for us to revisit the Holy Land in order to show us even more miracles to come. So I wouldn’t be surprised if that second visit to Israel could come true one of these days!

All praise and thanksgiving be to Yahweh God!