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A True Story
“Great,” I mumbled to myself when I saw the address for my next pizza delivery. It was just down the street and in a golf course community.
Usually, a short run like this meant a big tip for only about ten minutes work. Easy pickings!
As I drove my truck on the delivery, the radio was tuned to a classical music station which allowed my mind to wander here and there. Finally, my thoughts centered on my friend, Claire, and a recent crisis she and her family had endured.
It seems that Claire’s car was broken into and her purse was stolen. And like most women, her purse contained money, cards, ID’s and all the things everyone needs to live in our modern world.
She mentioned all of this on Facebook and from her comments I could tell just how devastated she was by the incident.
So, as I turned into the golf course community, I thought:
“Well, you know Claire is a woman and all. And women are much more emotional than us men, what with their hormonal system and mothering instincts. You know, women are just created weaker than us men. Now if this would have happened to Tony, her husband, then…”
CRUNCH!
I sideswiped an almost new Honda Pilot SUV which was parked in front of the house, next to the address of my pizza delivery. I could not believe it!
As soon as I pulled over to the curb, I jumped out and surveyed the damages. My Tundra pickup had some minor scratches on its rear, passenger-side wheel well. But the Honda, now that was a different story! Its front bumper and fender had been ripped open by my truck. Yipes!
I delivered the pizza and then went to the Honda owners’ house. I knocked on the door. No one home. I left a note on the Honda’s window and on their door. Then, I returned to work.
But I was so emotionally worked up, frazzled, frizzled and shaken by my accident that I took the rest of the night off.
Now, as I contemplated the accident and how it happened, this thought kept coming into my mind:Â The Lord pushed the rear-end of my truck into the Honda Pilot.
Why would He do that? To reveal my judgmental, hypocritical heart and wrong thinking to myself.
You husbands in the same way, live with your wives in an understanding way, as with someone weaker, since she is a woman; and show her honor as a fellow heir of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered. (1 Peter 3: 7)
Eventually, the Holy Spirit showed me that the weakness assigned to women in the above verse refers only to a physical and a muscular weakness. It in no way refers to a spiritual weakness or any other weaknesses on the part of a woman as compared to a man.
Why is this so important?
(Continued in Part 3)
Larry Who 
Of course, there will be those skeptics who will vow that God wouldn’t do such a thing as push the rear-end of my truck into a Honda. My answer to that lies in the future where I will write a book entitled, “God Wouldn’t Do That; Would He?”
Then all through the book, I will write: “Yes, He would!”
Just want to say I agree with your assessment of that verse. I, too, believe it refers to physical strength. Or lack, thereof. 😉 Only. And I’m sorry about your Tundra. But I wonder if, rather than the Lord pushing it into the Honda, the enemy was allowed to do it, via the opening through your flawed reasoning/attitude?
Grace,
Years ago, I heard Malcolm Smith tell a funny story on his radio program about a vision that he had. In the vision, Malcolm was walking toward a church that he was planning on attending. As he walked, he met Satan who was crying his eyes out.
Malcolm stopped and asked, “Satan, why are you weeping?”
Satan looked at Malcolm. “I’m crying because of all the terrible things Christians are saying that I did. I didn’t do them. It was God, but they blame me.”
Now, I know Malcolm’s vision does not prove that God pushed my truck into the Honda, nor can I definitely prove it beyond an earthly shadow of doubt.
But even if Satan did do it, then it means that God allowed it…or even worse yet, that maybe God hinted to Satan (like with Job) that he should do it.
The bottom line is that “God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.”
Sometimes, the “all things” are painful.
In this particular case, I phoned Honey and prayed for the people and everyone as soon as I could just after the accident. My cost was zero dollars and the Honda owners were terrific to me.
All in all, a learning experience.
brilliant larry!
and i know you’re leading us on in things and that you’ve got great things to share!
glad to be part of your awesome series!
fireball3316,
Thanks.
I do think it is entirely possible that God arranged that. He has done things similar to that in my life, I know! He has a sense of humor . . .:) Thanks, Larry . . .waiting for my next segment! deb
Debbie,
Thanks.
“Why is this so important?”
So Carol doesn’t send you Home in the middle of the night.
Jane,
Thanks…I think.
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