Last Saturday night my wife was on her way home from work (around 11pm) when she hit a patch of black ice, spun around three times and landed about ten feet off the road into a ditch. (She wasn’t injured).
Last night I was on my way to work when I realized I wasn’t wearing my seat belt. (Which was weird because I always do) So I reached back to put my seat belt on and continued to drive. As I approached the next stoplight I found myself happy because the light was green for a change. Just as I start to make my left turn at the light, a car that was going very fast , flies past the front of my car. I think he was less than a foot away from me. I stopped in the middle of the intersection and looked up at the lights. I said to myself “Yep I still have the green light”, he just blew the red light.
Within three days my wife and I had two very close calls. When my wife spun out she could have hit another car, a poll or even a tree. With my close call if I wouldn’t have taken the extra few seconds to put my seat belt on I would have been T-boned without my seat belt on by someone that blew a red light. There is only one way to explain all of this. “God”
Two weeks ago in Church I heard a sermon based on the book of Daniel. Daniel 3 The story of Shadrack, Meshach and Abednego. It was a story of how they were thrown into a fiery furnace because they would not worship a golden statue that King Nebuchadnezzar had made. They were not killed, not one hair on their bodies were burned because God sent an Angel to protect them. Today I read Daniel 6 the story of Daniel and the lions den. In this story Daniel was helping King Darius in many ways.He was preferred by King Darius because an excellent spirit was in him. The presidents and princes got jealous of Daniel and tried to find a way to get him in trouble with the King. So the presidents and princes tricked King Darius into making a decree that for the next thirty days no one can worship any other God. They can only worship the King and that this decree cannot be changed. If anyone was caught worshiping any other God then they would be thrown into the lions den. Daniel new that this decree was signed but he went home to pray anyways, he always prayed to God three times a day.As he was praying he was noticed by several of the presidents and princes and was brought before the King. At that point the King knew that he had been tricked by these men into signing the decree and he also knew that he couldn’t save Daniel from the lions den. Daniel was cast into the lions den where he was not harmed. God sent an Angel to shut the lions mouths.
First I want to say that I summarized these two chapters of Daniel to keep this blog from being extermly long. But I encourage you to read these chapters (Daniel 3&6) to get all the details of these stories.
In these two chapters people kept their faith in God even though it could have cost them their lives. Both times God sent an Angel to protect them. In my life there have been many of times that I could turned my back on God and didn’t. My faith was recently attacked by someone I work with and I stood my ground and stood up for God and what I believe. I’m not sure if Angels were with my wife and I over the last few days when our situations could have ended up very bad but all I know is that God was protecting us from something worse. Both situations could of ended in a very different way in a matter of seconds. So thank you God for keeping us safe.
