TRUST AND OBEY
It was a rough day. I could feel it in the air. I was
fine, but I could feel it all around me: People weren’t happy. It was hot;
their favorite team didn’t win; and it just felt out of whack. I had my errands
to do, but even driving was difficult: traffic jams, people going through red
lights, very chaotic. I’m sure you have had similar experiences and similar situations.
My errands took me to varied parts of the city, and the
Lord led me just fine, but the streets he had me go on were different from my
usual routes, so I knew something was off.
I finished my errands and, on the way home, a couple of
miles from the house, I was in another line of traffic coming up to the intersection.
Then I saw it: A very big car crash on the corner. One car facing out into the
road had its front and both sides smashed in several places. Then another car
had jumped a 3-foot cinderblock-and-metal fence and landed upside down in a
mess of broken fence and scattered piles of bricks, cinder blocks, and debris.
I could see all that because the traffic was moving so slowly as it got through
the intersection.
The Lord whispered: “That’s why I had to take you on the
route I did—to keep you from being in this accident, and there were others
along the way earlier that you didn’t see, because I got you away from them.”
I know many of you have had similar experiences to mine.
The Lord’s way is not always smooth for us, but he keeps
us out of trouble when we trust and obey!
“Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and
lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he
shall direct thy paths” (Prov. 3:5-6).
Don’t fight him; yield and trust. He sees what we don’t.
Love, Carolyn
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