This past Friday night, I was driving home with my three boys from a Royal Rangers event, when something went "POP" under my car hood. At first, I thought it was a tire. But when nothing went flat, I started to worry. Luckily, we did make it home before the car started giving way. When I checked under the hood, all I could tell was there was an aweful lot of fluid coating my engine, but I wasn't sure what type of fluid it was.
That was it. My last straw.....
Over the past 6 months, the place I worked for over 6 years decided to just close down the office I was working in, and let everyone go (roughly 100 people). Since this time, it seems like everything in my home has chosen now to break down and fall apart as well. The air conditioning quit working, my kitchen stove decided it didn't want to heat anymore, my fridge quit working (a day after the stove went kaput!). Many other things had chosen to quit working at this time as well.
Through it all, I have prayed and trusted that God would not give me more that I could take. God has been so good to me and my family. We have been going to a church for the past year that has basically turned my life more towards God and his calling more than any church has for a long time. I've been closer to God more this year than probably at any other time in my life. I was actually TITHING for the first time (this shocked my wife too).
....Everything around me is falling apart. Now the car up and dies on me. I can't take anymore. This is the last straw. As I was standing across from my wife uttering these feeling of frustration, the peace of God came over me, and reminded me again that I belonged to him, and He would not let me go.
Saturday morning, I went out to get a look at the engine, and found a heater hose had exploded. Although I had to move some things out of the way to get to it, it was a pretty easy fix, even for a novice like me. And it only cost me about $25 to fix.
God is Good.
The LORD is faithful to all his promises and loving toward all he has made. Psalm 145:13c
