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Kat:
Hi Joe,
I think it is like Brenda was saying, it was so that you can see that God is totally in control and sovereign. It did all happened exactly the way it was intended to happen and you are right to be thankful to God that you were not seriously injured. These are experiences so that you can learn you have no control of anything and are totally dependant on God in every way. You do not need to say 'what if' that is irrelevant, there is no what ifs, only what is. Do not worry do your best and seek God in all things.
Psa 121:2 My help comes from the LORD,
Who made heaven and earth.
v. 3 He will not allow your foot to be moved;
He who keeps you will not slumber.
v. 4 Behold, He who keeps Israel
Shall neither slumber nor sleep.
v. 5 The LORD is your keeper;
The LORD is your shade at your right hand.
v. 6 The sun shall not strike you by day,
Nor the moon by night.
v. 7 The LORD shall preserve you from all evil;
He shall preserve your soul.
v. 8 The LORD shall preserve your going out and your coming in
From this time forth, and even forevermore.
mercy, peace and love
Kat
Dave in Tenn:
Hey Joe. I won't attempt to explain the sovereignty of God...mostly because I can't. ;D For me, that's kinda the point. His ways are higher than our ways, His thoughts are loftier than ours, and Praise Him, His goals for us far exceed our own. If the likes of me could fathom it all, it really wouldn't be so magnificent after all. I love a good mystery.
Sometimes these larger events (like your car wreck) unleash an avalanche of thoughts like "What if I had left a minute later...I'd have been in behind this guy and not in front of him. Oh wait...what if HE had left a minute earlier too...would this have still happened? Etc. Etc. Etc." until all you can do is either go crazy or get happy. When I first started thinking about this, it was paralyzing. I thought I had LOST something...Oh God, I've lost my free-will...what am I going to do?!?! :D But with a little time, and with Ray, and with a few of the fine forum folks, I began to understand I never had it to begin with. God is sovereign and He tells me that His working in my life began before I was conceived. He's also given us a peek at the end. That clears up an awful lot of this 'middle stuff'. ;D
A kazoollian events happened that led up to that car wreck, and that wreck will be one of a kazoolian more that wil influence/cause the rest of your life. It's only sometimes that we get a peek at the 'meaning' and then only a really cloudy, incomplete peek. And that's happening all at once to everybody else too, including the guy who hit you. What do you say to a God like that except Jesus is Lord!
I'm glad you came through relatively unscathed. I'm also glad it got you to thinking and to being thankful. Sounds like you learned a few practical lessons too. It's Love to use that blinker. ;D
Hang in there.
charrie:
As Job said "who are we to accept the good from GOD and not the bad?
In ALL things give thanks to the Father...
I thank you Father for the accident I had several years ago. I thank you that my car was totalled. I thank you that as a result I lost all material possessions (this is a long story). I thank you that I wrestle (and lose most of the time) with compulsive overeating. I thank you that I have been told I have osteoarthritis and it hurts sometimes to hold my neck up. I thank you for the opportunity to make the same mistake twice :-\ :-\
From Roger: "I follow the book in driver-ed as much as possible for the sake of my family's and myself, and the other drivers..... be it using the turn signal, if i miss my off ramp i travel to the next one and use the turn around and enjoy the extended trip. i am not angered to begin caught by a train , i count them and try to describe the train to my little one who is so found of trains. should i have a flat i pull over to the safest spot i can find and enjoy the scenery as i get dirty and change the tire... Yes i know is sounds to Serene, but what else is there ?? cuss at the train, swear at the flat, yell at the traffic, disdained at my circumstance. Is it sissy for me to just stop and take in another breathe of Life and thank God for not snuffing me out and letting me live to see another day..... then i am sissified."
I agree, Roger, let's all just become sissified!! ::) ::)
I may be alone on this one, but, it is the most difficult situations that happen that makes me enjoy so much more the situations that are "good". I have learned to enjoy the good moments Father gives me because they are precious. I never know when "class" will be in session again.
I am glad you are all right, Joe
Charrie :-*
Marlene:
Charrie and Rodger, I am so with you both on your thoughts. I use to sweat everything. Now, I am learning its all part of his plan to change us. Even, thanking him for the flaws I find in me. That, use to be impossible for me. I feared Hell and got warned out with it. I am like Daywalker on that. The release of Hell is the most wonderful thing to ever happen. Now, just trusting him is easier then thinking I have to do it all. I was worn out trying and was just spinning my wheels. Its just freedom and truth. Why, anyone would want to go back to Babylon is beyond my imagination.
Love You All,
Marlene
jg:
Thanks so much for all the input.
I was hoping I could gain some insight on things by posting here and I have. Again, thanks! I've been thinking so much more about God's sovereignty thanks to several post replys. I actually got goosebumps when I read Brenda's recap of Kat's post, I guess I was given a little insight there. When I thought about how God is really, and I mean REALLY in control; How He could see to it that I walked away from such a terrible accident without much more than a scratch, not to mention the fact that He put me through it by His plan and intention, and maybe for that purpose alone, it blew me away! It was as if He was showing me that very thing so that I could learn to trust Him even more, no matter what happens in the future. I'm seeing that now, maybe not as clearly as some of you but I'm growing.
The more I think about it, the more trust I have in my Father. I believe I have gained way more than I lost. Whats a car worth? Who cares? The other guy wasn't hurt either, that matters!
Again, thanks all.
Joe in West Virginia
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