Faithful even in the small things.

Yesterday, Melanie, Steve, Fenny, and I were planning to go eat after church. For the longest time we didn't know what restaurant to go to. Some of us had an urge to go somewhere, but one of us would always interject and respond with "Oh! I'm fine with everything EXCEPT that." In the end, we ended up going on a double date to Zensen Sushi, the place where we had our first double date together!

So when we got there, the line was super long...it was about 7:26pm and the restaurant closes as 9pm...(we still needed time to eat and waiting for a spot will take a while) Steve and I were both amazed, as we have never seen so many people in that restaurant before. Man there were literally crowds of people filling the restaurant inside and out.

We weren't sure whether to switch restaurants at this point because the line was so long but then we saw a piece of paper posted on the side of the window of the restaurant. It said something like "Zensen sushi will be closing after 2/23/2014. This is the LAST day"

Wow! Today was the last day that they are going to open here in Berkeley. Now we HAVE to go. So we wrote down Melanie's name and waited for our spot to come. We were one of the last if not the last person to sign up on the waiting list because after our name was written, the waiter drew a black line underneath our name saying "Store closing". We saw several groups of people getting rejected after that, the waiter really had no time to deal with them. Wow thank God, we somehow came here on the last day and managed to get on the waiting list. Seeing the others get rejected, I felt a mix of pity and being blessed because we got on the waiting list.

As we waited for Melanie's name to be called, we saw people eating at the "booths". The booth provided seats for 4 people that faced each other. It provided more privacy too as opposed to the "bar" style seats. By faith, we said thank you God for giving us the booth! Albiet, at first, in a half joking way but soon the passion lit up and we kept claiming it in Jesus name!

Not to say the waiting wasn't tough though. Faith in the statement was definitely tested. There were 3 booths and as soon as we saw 2 of the booths have opened, we got our hopes up and thought we might have been able to get those. But almost as quickly as the booths have opened up, 2 groups of people that were ahead of us took the booths. Also, more seats in the bar were being opened up and we thought we were going to get those.

Oh...that sucks...But no! We kept giving thanks to God and still said "Thank you for the 4-seater booth God :)" Even though it was a small request (eating at the bar wouldn't ruin the night as we were already thankful to even be able to go there on the last opening day), it would be cool if we actually got it.

Long story short,  in the seats at the bar, there was a row of 3 seats not 4 so we got the last booth. Zensen sushi closed the doors after that. We were all full and even got free dessert on top of it all!

Give thanks to God as if you've already gotten the thing you wanted. If it's His will, it WILL happen. Wow! He even stayed faithful to the little things even though our motives might have been a bit selfish? (cause we wanted the booth for ourselves?) but in the end we can still use this experience to glorify His name! Steve, Fenny, and any others that are looking for jobs. I believe looking for jobs is kind of like this. Sometimes we might get our hopes up and then all of a sudden that "booth" will become taken by someone else. These are things beyond our control and times when perseverance and patience will be tested but you know. Keep being faithful and saying "Thank you for the job I wanted God!" Say it over and over again because if even God was willing to provide for something so small, I believe He will will provide for the bigger things too :) Dear God, please let Fenny and Steve(and anyone else) be able to use this experience as a reminder when they are feeling down and thank you for providing the wonderful jobs for them :)