I saw something last night.
Oct 31, 2017 13:04:02 GMT -6
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Post by sawdy on Oct 31, 2017 13:04:02 GMT -6
I was driving my kids home from their skating lessons when I came up behind two stopped cars at a crosswalk. I stopped behind them and waited. From the opposite direction, traffic was coming; there was a truck in the lane closest to the curb and a semi with a trailer on the lane closest to the center line, both on coming to the crosswalk.
A man was dressed in dark clothing and had two dogs in front of him on leashes. He walked by the two vehicles in front of me and was crossing the center line when the semi failed to notice him and hadn't stopped.
Here is the interesting part: The semi swerved slightly at the last second and the man appeared to have been pushed backwards. Both his feet came up in the air and he landed on his bum. The dogs were not hit either.
I didn't really think of God's intervention until this morning. A friend of mine posted on Facebook about the near accident as she was driving behind the semi and saw a bit of it from that viewpoint. She mentioned he must have had an angel looking out for him. She said the truck swerved at just the last second.
From my direction, looking back on it, it was like something stood between the truck and the man. It pushed the truck just out of the way enough that he didn't hit the truck on his right hand side. It also diverted the dogs that they didn't go under the truck wheel and forcibly pushed the man backwards, through the air, where he landed onto his bum.
Did I stop and take the time to find out if the man was okay? He appeared okay and got up fine. I had kids to get home. I didn't even stop and notice in the moment that God probably had a hand in saving that man and his dogs from a disaster. Did I take the opportunity to find out from the man what he felt or use the opportunity to witness? The thought didn't even cross my mind at the time because I was still to busy being focused on chewing my son out about wasting my time that evening as he got off the ice early and was playing rather than practicing or getting changed to go home.
A situation happened where I could potentially witness about God and I was too busy to slow down and see it for what it was. A situation that I wouldn't have witnessed if my son had got changed out of his skates faster.
We need to slow down and be present in the moment that we are in. To give that moment our attention, even if it means our schedule is being disrupted. You can't witness on a schedule. You need to be open to taking the time for the opportunity that is presented in front of you.
Had I stopped to see that the man was okay, I don't know who else would have stopped. The semi driver had stopped. Maybe more would have stopped. Maybe someone else who needed their eyes opened a little bit to see the situation for what it was, God's intervention. I didn't stop but I have learned a huge lesson today. I need to be more present in the moment that I am in and be listening closer to the Holy Spirit. I need to hear the quiet voice inside when it gives me instruction. I need to stop fixating so much on my schedule and let it be what it is.
"Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland." -Isaiah 43:18-19
"You will be his witness to all men of what you have seen and heard." -Acts 22:15
"He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation." -Mark 16:20
A man was dressed in dark clothing and had two dogs in front of him on leashes. He walked by the two vehicles in front of me and was crossing the center line when the semi failed to notice him and hadn't stopped.
Here is the interesting part: The semi swerved slightly at the last second and the man appeared to have been pushed backwards. Both his feet came up in the air and he landed on his bum. The dogs were not hit either.
I didn't really think of God's intervention until this morning. A friend of mine posted on Facebook about the near accident as she was driving behind the semi and saw a bit of it from that viewpoint. She mentioned he must have had an angel looking out for him. She said the truck swerved at just the last second.
From my direction, looking back on it, it was like something stood between the truck and the man. It pushed the truck just out of the way enough that he didn't hit the truck on his right hand side. It also diverted the dogs that they didn't go under the truck wheel and forcibly pushed the man backwards, through the air, where he landed onto his bum.
Did I stop and take the time to find out if the man was okay? He appeared okay and got up fine. I had kids to get home. I didn't even stop and notice in the moment that God probably had a hand in saving that man and his dogs from a disaster. Did I take the opportunity to find out from the man what he felt or use the opportunity to witness? The thought didn't even cross my mind at the time because I was still to busy being focused on chewing my son out about wasting my time that evening as he got off the ice early and was playing rather than practicing or getting changed to go home.
A situation happened where I could potentially witness about God and I was too busy to slow down and see it for what it was. A situation that I wouldn't have witnessed if my son had got changed out of his skates faster.
We need to slow down and be present in the moment that we are in. To give that moment our attention, even if it means our schedule is being disrupted. You can't witness on a schedule. You need to be open to taking the time for the opportunity that is presented in front of you.
Had I stopped to see that the man was okay, I don't know who else would have stopped. The semi driver had stopped. Maybe more would have stopped. Maybe someone else who needed their eyes opened a little bit to see the situation for what it was, God's intervention. I didn't stop but I have learned a huge lesson today. I need to be more present in the moment that I am in and be listening closer to the Holy Spirit. I need to hear the quiet voice inside when it gives me instruction. I need to stop fixating so much on my schedule and let it be what it is.
"Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland." -Isaiah 43:18-19
"You will be his witness to all men of what you have seen and heard." -Acts 22:15
"He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation." -Mark 16:20