Tuesday, 09 December 2008
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Silver Lining: God Used My Illness to Save Us From an Accident
Guest post by trickery19
With so many things for me to doubt at the moment, God decided to remind me that He is always in control. Unfortunately for me, I'm not good with subtle hints, so He gave me a pretty big one.
On Saturday, my dad had a few errands to run so I offered to drive, still in the process of perfecting my driving skills. I started learning about a year ago, and passed my test a few months ago, so I'm just practising at the moment. Anyway, after being out for about 2 hours, I was standing waiting for my dad in a shop when I realised I was getting quite sleepy. I have an issue with my stomach, which means I never feel hungry (and therefore often forget to eat), and I realised that I had not had nearly enough to eat.
I felt bad about asking my dad to drive us home, but I just couldn't face the 20 minute stretch home. After about 5 minutes we were driving along a main road (going at roughly 70km/h) that had a road connecting on the left. As we passed the road, a car turned into our road at quite a speed. My dad had to swerve to miss it and had to switch lanes whilst applying the brakes, and with all near crash authenticity there was an almighty screech. I realise there and then that if I had been driving I would have hit that car, and from the positions, my dad would have been to one to be hurt the most. Killing myself is one thing, but I could never live knowing that I killed my own father.
It was the nearest I've ever come to being in a serious car crash, and through God's grace, it was my dad (35 years driving, never been in an accident) who was driving. If it wasn't for my health issue, and feeling so sleepy, I would have been in the drivers seat. God delivered me that day, and reminded me that even when you can't understand why something is, it might be the only thing helping you later on.
What's a situation that you thought was terrible at first, but that God ended up using for good in your life?
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One day I was upset about getting off work 30 minutes late, but when I did get off, I was driving on the interstate when I came upon about a mile traffic jam. Turns out a bus had decided to cross the little gravel road between the 4 lane and without knowing a diesel truck was on the other side behind a car, it pulled out killing 3 people. As I sat there hearing what the hold up, my anger suddenly resolved about me leaving work late because I honestly believe if I had left on time I might have been in that wreck, and I had a little Pontiac Sunfire that would have fit nicely under the empty space between the 18 wheels of a semi.
Wow, that is an inspirational story. I've not had anything that dramatic happen to me. But once I was going home from a market with some friends of mine. We got turned around and were a little late getting where we needed to go. But on the way home, we went through this intersection where there had just been an accident, and there were police cars and everything there. I believe that we could have been right about there at the time of the accident if we hadn't gotten lost. Just one of those kinda eye-opening things.
I think the one event God used on me was fooling myself into thinking that I no longer liked the man had known for 3+ years, but instead liked some guy I barely Knew. Eventually, I figured out that God had to show me what it was like to not be in love to realize just how much I love the man I have known for so long. And, praise God that he and I are working through what happened and willing to basically start over.
another event was when I rolled my car into a 20 foot ditch at 5 mph. I wasn't hurt and no other vehicles were involved, but it helps me to remember to always be careful behind the wheel and that it's better to be late than to never get then at all!
Wow, that is crazy! What an awesome story! I've had a few moments like this, but none very recent. However, I can think of one major event in response to your question that certainly applies. A year and a half ago I started dating a guy who used me as his personal confessional for all of his past kinky sexual sins. We dated for less than three weeks and even in that short time he wanted much more than I was willing to give him physically. He was a real player. After that ended, I felt so stupid for allowing myself to fall for a guy like that even though I gave him nothing regrettable. I always thought I was secure, stable, and not vulnerable to a hollow guy with "all the right words." My confidence was shaken. However, I think God still used it for the good. If I had not dated that dude, through some odd twists of providence, I would not have gotten with the wonderful man who is now my fiance. That by itself makes the whole fiasco worthwhile.