Sachin is our close family friend. He is obsessed with Motor Sports. He spends most of his time playing motor sports in Play station and sometimes on Karting. He is not from an affluent family.
At least six years back when Sachin was around 18 years, on a Christmas day he was just gazing at the sky. He was astonished to see the stars forming F1. He thought it was God’s decree that he should be in Formula One and started thinking of getting into Formula One and nothing else.
He started going to the Church and telling Priests of what he witnessed. Priests told him that God shall show him the path. He started believing strongly that it is God’s wish that he should be in Formula One. Slowly he started losing his concentration in studies and finally discontinued his studies. He went for a job for a brief period and quit the job too. When his family members and friends questioned him why he has discontinued his studies, he used to say “God’s Wish is something different and this is not what God wants me to do”. He stopped listening to the advice of others.
Some people told him that Motor Sports is for rich people only and it is impossible for him to get into Formula One. His reply was “Impossible for human beings only and not for God”.
One day he embraced Christianity and became Jonathan. His desire of getting into F-1 surged. His mother told him that only by miracle he can get into Formula One and she cannot spend money for that. Sachin replied “My God have done so many miracles. Wealthy people have become beggars and beggars have become Kings in no time” and cited stories from Bible.
“Ordinary people do not understand this” he said.
He started spending more time thinking about Formula One watching F1 race on the TV screen, playing Motor sports in play station etc. Finally, because of pressure from his family to be more responsible he decided to go for a job. However, he decided that he would take up a job only as a car driver.
He took a job as a car driver and is still a car driver. It is more than six years since he saw the stars in sky. He has been waiting for more than six years for the miracle to happen. Nothing has improved for him. On the other hand things have only worsened. He has become older now and is now past the prime.
But his desire in F1 and his faith in God doing a miracle for him have just not faded even after six long years and so much of trouble.
God sees the truth but waits.
Published for MSN.COM
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