Christi and me experienced the same yesterday. Like most couple's our age, we are beginning to want to secure our family's and especially our child's future. So we had applied for a home loan to pick up a plot of land close to the airport. We have always maintained a good credit history and financially He has brought us to a position where we are able pay the required EMI for the same. Thinking that it will be a good investment to keep for the future, we decided to go ahead and see where this went. Our prayer was simple all through - "If its Your will, help us get the loan; else we will know you didn't want us to move forward in this direction."
Post the application, the bank reps seemed very positive and almost certain that the loan will fall through without problems. 2 weeks went by and we were awaiting confirmation that the loan would fall through; also that we would then be proud owners of a plot of land :-) But then a thought struck me... What if He didn't want us to pick up this right now? What if it was not His will? More importantly, how would i react if the loan was rejected?
Yesterday evening, we received a call from the bank rep. Our application had been rejected on a really stupid reason - the company i work with is registered in India as a partnership firm in order to avoid a lot of legal hassles faced with starting as a private limited company in India. So despite our very good credit history and good financial health, the bank had rejected the loan on the stupid grounds of my company registrations! It came as a slight shock, but we quickly realized that it was clearly not His will; Even as we didn't feel the urge to try and apply some other place in order to get the loan.
As i was thinking about it today morning, i couldn't help but feel a l'il bad about the fact that the loan was rejected on really silly grounds. Also the immediate thing that comes up if they rejected a loan for the fact that my company is registered as a partnership firm, will christi and me ever be able to pick up a loan to buy a house / property of our own? The answer came immediately - the still same voice of the Sweet Holy Spirit, reminded me of the various times that we should never have gotten things given our circumstances, but we received them nonetheless!
The answer is simple. When the time comes that He wants to bless us with our own property / home, He will pull things into place for us no matter what the constraints :-) WOW! What an assurance that He has given us - we will never lack any good thing for He will provide all that we need (promised in Mt). With that assurance, we rest our case before Him and decided to continue to enjoy life one day at a time. For He truly is good and His provisions never fail us...
We are presently preparing to move to Somajiguda as its closer by my office. Also Christi and Aarav are going back to her parents place for the Christmas season.
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