So this is something that happened to me Sunday that literally saved my life. And I'm sharing it with a few churches next Sunday to glorify God and I want to share with you all as well. It's nothing epic perhaps, but for me it was something seemingly insignificant that turned out to be big.
So the morning started fine. It was a great morning actually, had to clean ice off my car but as every sunday especially I feel good about being christian. I feel good about the love of God everyday but Sunday anticipation about going to meet other believers is significant for me as I don't come from a saved home and for the most part my generation and this town have forgotten about God. I drive 25 miles in to another state to go to a great church (well worth it if you ask me, easily).
Now I was driving down to church the whole way, everything seemed fine and the service turned out to be an interesting service. It was the story of the ten lepers asking Jesus to heal them, but just told them what to do. He said for them to show themselves to the priests, never said he would heal them, but one turns back and glorifies God with a loud voice and bows down at Jesus' feet and Jesus mentions there were 9 others but tells this one his faith has made him whole. You could say this was a thanksgiving service, and the pastor mentioned thanking God for things that didn't happen, like bad things or harmful things.
Well I thanked this pastor for coming to be our pastor before I left and I made my way home. Was on a straight at about 60mph and my tire suddenly goes flat. Knew what it was and which side, and calmly pulled over, but a truck *almost* rear ends me because he was following too close, then as i pull off melon sized rocks are on the shoulder and i had to "dodge" them as i pull over on to a narrow shoulder on a very busy stretch of road. Bad thing was, right there there was barely any cellphone service to call anyone. So I check the spare I have...spare tire...jack...no tire iron. 25 miles from home, but i finally get a hold of someone, my mother. She comes to get me from a town nearby-ish and then she gets sick while driving, so i drop her off back at her place and then i proceed to my dad's home. I tell him what happened and that the tire went flat but didn't blow out and had no tire iron to change it. So he follows me back to my mom's and i drop the car off and thank her and then me and my did ride out to find my car.
We get there and change the tire, roll the tire to the ground with the inside facing down. I grab it and put it in the trunk and my dad goes ahead and puts the spare on for me (he's a very nice and great dad, could have changed it myself but he went ahead and did it anyway). I put it in the trunk of my car with the inside facing down and we get rolling back home. We get home and lay the tire down...again inside facing down. We hook it up to the air compressor and the leak is coming from the other side...
You see, I hit a nail and you could see where it scratched until puncturing the tire...the thing is, the other side of the tire was rubbing against something and no one knew, i didn't and could never hear it. It was down to the wire and could have blown apart anytime and i travel the interstate a lot and windy country roads a lot. I had no idea, and for all i know if God hadn't intervened that morning a minute down the road my front driver's side tire could have blown apart and affected my steering and i could have lost control and went in to the other lane of traffic. I was overcome by this, it was just a little flat tire but it turned out to be a big deal, I could have wrecked and gotten hurt or even died considering my routes of travel. We live in the mountains so the interstates and roads are curvey and downhill. I thought of the story I heard that morning, by now it was late afternoon, but I thought of that leper and what the pastor said about things not happening. I thanked and praised God...He was the only one who knew about that tire.
It's amazing with all the things going on in the world if you think about it and then when He comes all the way out in the middle of nowhere to a place no one has ever heard of and intervenes at just the right time to save my life. I say save my life because if I could have made it home without the wheel bursting He would not have intervened the way He did. I suspect maybe even a minute down the road it could have.
Praise God! and Give thanks to a God that watches over every one of His people!
So the morning started fine. It was a great morning actually, had to clean ice off my car but as every sunday especially I feel good about being christian. I feel good about the love of God everyday but Sunday anticipation about going to meet other believers is significant for me as I don't come from a saved home and for the most part my generation and this town have forgotten about God. I drive 25 miles in to another state to go to a great church (well worth it if you ask me, easily).
Now I was driving down to church the whole way, everything seemed fine and the service turned out to be an interesting service. It was the story of the ten lepers asking Jesus to heal them, but just told them what to do. He said for them to show themselves to the priests, never said he would heal them, but one turns back and glorifies God with a loud voice and bows down at Jesus' feet and Jesus mentions there were 9 others but tells this one his faith has made him whole. You could say this was a thanksgiving service, and the pastor mentioned thanking God for things that didn't happen, like bad things or harmful things.
Well I thanked this pastor for coming to be our pastor before I left and I made my way home. Was on a straight at about 60mph and my tire suddenly goes flat. Knew what it was and which side, and calmly pulled over, but a truck *almost* rear ends me because he was following too close, then as i pull off melon sized rocks are on the shoulder and i had to "dodge" them as i pull over on to a narrow shoulder on a very busy stretch of road. Bad thing was, right there there was barely any cellphone service to call anyone. So I check the spare I have...spare tire...jack...no tire iron. 25 miles from home, but i finally get a hold of someone, my mother. She comes to get me from a town nearby-ish and then she gets sick while driving, so i drop her off back at her place and then i proceed to my dad's home. I tell him what happened and that the tire went flat but didn't blow out and had no tire iron to change it. So he follows me back to my mom's and i drop the car off and thank her and then me and my did ride out to find my car.
We get there and change the tire, roll the tire to the ground with the inside facing down. I grab it and put it in the trunk and my dad goes ahead and puts the spare on for me (he's a very nice and great dad, could have changed it myself but he went ahead and did it anyway). I put it in the trunk of my car with the inside facing down and we get rolling back home. We get home and lay the tire down...again inside facing down. We hook it up to the air compressor and the leak is coming from the other side...
You see, I hit a nail and you could see where it scratched until puncturing the tire...the thing is, the other side of the tire was rubbing against something and no one knew, i didn't and could never hear it. It was down to the wire and could have blown apart anytime and i travel the interstate a lot and windy country roads a lot. I had no idea, and for all i know if God hadn't intervened that morning a minute down the road my front driver's side tire could have blown apart and affected my steering and i could have lost control and went in to the other lane of traffic. I was overcome by this, it was just a little flat tire but it turned out to be a big deal, I could have wrecked and gotten hurt or even died considering my routes of travel. We live in the mountains so the interstates and roads are curvey and downhill. I thought of the story I heard that morning, by now it was late afternoon, but I thought of that leper and what the pastor said about things not happening. I thanked and praised God...He was the only one who knew about that tire.
It's amazing with all the things going on in the world if you think about it and then when He comes all the way out in the middle of nowhere to a place no one has ever heard of and intervenes at just the right time to save my life. I say save my life because if I could have made it home without the wheel bursting He would not have intervened the way He did. I suspect maybe even a minute down the road it could have.
Praise God! and Give thanks to a God that watches over every one of His people!
God is just amazing isn't He?
