Unexplained Favor; 15 Years at Samsung
July 12, 2013 Leave a comment
"Blessed and enviably happy [with a happiness produced by the experience of God’s favor and especially conditioned by the revelation of His matchless grace] are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted!" Matthew 5:4 AMP
"Blessed-highly favored or fortunate"
"Mourn-feel sadness"
"Comforted-experience physical well being or relief"
One of the reason why I am sharing my thoughts here on the web is I want you to know that there is hope. I don’t know who you are and how you struggle everyday. I’m always thinking of people who are less fortunate, that life must have been so difficult for years and you are asking "when these hardship is going to end?".
I gained nothing for doing this except for a simple thought-that a few of you might end up sharing the same cup of joy with me.
I had my share of misfortune (maybe hardship) a few years back. There were times that I thought life is a struggle for survival. You get your shovel and work hard everyday to provide for your family. Then at night, you gather your strength in your sleep and then wake up in the morning and do the same thing over again.
There is one thing that science have not explained to me yet-"God’s Favor".
Looking back through the years since my birth, I have no idea that I will end up where I am today. I know that you too might have the same theme of life-a journey of defeat and triumph.
Yesterday, I received my 15 years of service award from Samsung. They gave me a cute glass statue with my name on it and the year 2013 engraved just below my name. I joined Samsung in July of 1998, a year after they built the building in 1997. I don’t consider my job at Samsung secured because I know how this technology market can change in a day. I love my job, my team, my co workers and my superiors and I really desire to retire from this place. That chapter of my life still need to be written.
When I got home, I stared at the award for a moment and then all of a sudden names, events, places flashes in my mind. It was like being in heaven where God stood beside me showing all the things He had done through the years. He was explaining to me how my mom and dad felt so excited about my birth. Then He showed me how I cried so much in 1983 when my father died that evening of April 9th at the age of 55. Then He moved on to show me how He let me stumble with the person that became my wife. Then He showed me the flood in Ormoc where 5000 people died and I managed to find ways to survive. Then He showed me New York where I felt so happy to be reunited with my wife but then in 3 months time, took away that happiness and replaced it with sadness when I joined the US Army; the night before I left for training we learned that my wife was pregnant. Then He showed me how sad I was during that moment as I left New York and I even questioned Him. Then He showed me how worried I was during the 2-hour bus ride from the airport to Ft Leonardwood, Missouri (on my way to Army boot camp) thinking that I let my wife and baby down by leaving them on their own. Then He showed my hardship in the mountains of South Korea for a one-year tour of duty at DMZ. Then He showed me how He manipulated my mind to take the AMD entrance test which guided my family to pick Austin as our final place of work Then He showed me how a person called me out of nowhere and recruited me to work for Samsung.
It took me a while to get to my "promise land" but I know in my heart that it was all God’s doing (God’s Favor). But what really got me so excited is when He showed me the people that I met during the journey; that without my interaction with them their life could have been so different. When I look back now and told myself that if I disobeyed God during my hardship and went on to a different direction these people will not be where they are now.
There are more stories like in my life that I consider unexplained. How did it happen? What lead to the event? Why?
God’s existence is a mystery but it does not have to remain a mystery to you. There are so much to expect from Him everyday that no one can ever imagine.
His favor is endless.
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