Two recent events, which happened between this week and last week, that proves (more to me) the goodness of a loving God. First, my phone fell into a bucket of dirty liquid mixture, and stopped working. After a week, I somehow resuscitated it back to a good working condition without expending any money. Secondly, I was outbid on a wrist watch at ebay in the last few minutes because I fell asleep. Afterward, I found the same wrist watch for even a lower price than I had bidden before. Truly, God is great.
Trusting in the lord is the best thing to do in any situation, good or bad. In fact, my favorite passage of the bible, Psalm 125:1, reads "those who trust in the lord are like mount Zion which cannot be moved, but abides forever," And following this in verse 2 "as the lord surrounds Jerusalem so He will surround you forever." He also said "never will I leave you no forsake you." Hence, he is my stronghold anytime anywhere.
As per unknowingly trusting my phone into the bucket full of water mixed with some detergent, I thought "this is the end of another new phone in three months. Well, God thanks...good day" This all happened while I bent down to pick up something, and my phone was uncovered in the upper pocket of my shirt. A minute ago, I had forced myself to move its location from the desk to my pocket because I inadvertently hit it down while writing. Little did I know that this was the beginning to an end of it's use for a week. Suddenly, while it dropped helplessly into the water, I heard a sound somewhat like a ball of metal being dropped into an endless pit.Then I peeped to ensure my eyes were not mistaken-- there laid my phone in the bottom of the long cylindrical bucket three-forth full of liquid.
At first I contemplated putting my hand into the liquid to take out the phone thinking the chemicals might be irritating to the skin, but then it was blatant that was my only option unless I never want to use the phone again. So finally I summoned some courage to take it out after a 1-minute hiatus. Turning it ON was easy, but I had to blow off the moisture from the phone before use. It worked after I turned it On,so I switched it off in order to disintergrate and blow off the liquid from its intricate parts. This was successful, but now it was impossible to turn it ON again -- the reason for which I am still obfuscated.
For a week I tried several means to get the phone working again. First, I got it checked out at a t-mobile retail store. Then tried to dry it under the sunlight, and once with a drying machine, but all to no avail. Soon I was running out of options to restore my phone. Even the t-mobile representatives said my warranty couldn't cover a water damage so I was left helpless with a phone that would only charge. I was timorous knowing that buying a new phone might be the last resort, but I committed everything in prayer to God nonetheless.
Even though I felt and believed that somehow the lord will come true for me, to have increased the stakes of losing the phone by leaving it in the liquid for 1-minutes was undoubtedly the root of my despair.
Exactly six days after this unforeseen tragedy, I recalled that one of the t-mobile representatives had mentioned storing the phone amidst a bag of uncooked rice. He said rice was capable of sucking up the moisture in days, but this was just a mere believe. Knowing that was almost my only hope, I set-out to try... believing that God is capable of using this procedure to restore the phone. I was a bit doubtful after trying other means that never worked, but I wanted to see this outcome of this one-last-trial.
To my greatest surprise, rice was a powerful moisture absorber. My phone now works perfectly. Even in my wildest, I would never think that storing a phone in a bag of rice was capable of ridding it of moisture. But nevertheless, I believe the lord had a hand in this so I am grateful. Actually, this is the high of my week thus far.
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